by lameredith | Nov 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
I was so in need of a break before I set off for what we Alaskans call the Lower 48 some weeks back. Getting closer to retirement from a job I have loved and occasionally loathed, I’ve been searching for what comes next and where to live it. I’ve hoped for a place...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Uncategorized
How are you? Welcome! It’s June with a vengeance. With warmer temps and thicker wildfire smoke than I can remember in Alaska’s history, it’s one for the books. And movies. And podcasts. Due to the long and lovely summer days, I still have 6 hours of...
by lameredith | Dec 18, 2018 | Healing & Gratitude, Uncategorized
My return from South America was promptly eclipsed by the massive November 30th earthquake here in Alaska. I’d landed in Los Angeles from a brief layover in Peru when I turned on my phone to find a flood of texts. The first was from my youngest daughter, giving me a...
by lameredith | Jan 3, 2017 | Family & Celebrations, Uncategorized
Happy New Year! Just before the holidays, I spent some time discarding and donating stuff I no longer wanted when I came across this tattered list. It is an outline of wishes and goals I hoped for in my 39th year. It was just the distraction I needed to stop...
by lameredith | Aug 5, 2013 | Family & Celebrations, Uncategorized
How was your week? Summer for all of us is half over, and for those of us living in Alaska, it will end in nano-seconds. Not only that, we’re more than half way through 2013. I find summer brings less time for writing, but adds time for visits with family,...
by lameredith | Oct 7, 2012 | Domestic Violence, Uncategorized
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness month. There are a lot of reasons an abuse victim remains in a violent relationship. Want to know the reason up to half of battered women interviewed give for not leaving their violent partner? Fear of what would...