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Dec 9th, 2016
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article by Meredith McKinnie We found out we were pregnant in April. We found out we weren’t anymore in June. During the hope and expectation and emotion and hormones, before the heartbreak, I wrote a letter to a fetus I was sure would be a little girl… May she giggle when she runs in the […]...
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Nov 3rd, 2016
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Riding the Middle article by Meredith McKinnie Friday morning was not yet beaming with the July heat at 5:45 a.m. The streets were oddly silent yet in the way that suggests oncoming chaos. I drove myself to surgery, Boyfriend calmly riding beside me. We didn’t have much to say. We both just wanted it...
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Sep 19th, 2016
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article by Meredith McKinnie I lost a baby today. Or perhaps I lost what I imagined was a baby today. It was my fourth visit, my fourth ultra sound. Last week had been hopeful. We finally saw something. It looked like a wedding ring, a perfect little circle of life beginning. And I began to fall in [...
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Aug 29th, 2016
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article by Meredith McKinnie I’ve always been presented aging as a tradeoff. The physical ailments show up more pronounced, but with each decade we become more ourselves, more comfortable in our skin. I’m only on my third decade, and I know this to be the case. I can’t imagine how I’ll feel at 50. I’...
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Aug 1st, 2016
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article by Meredith McKinnie I have a standing reservation every Friday night. It’s Friday Night Supper Club. And yes, the name is original. We meet on Friday; we have supper, and we’re an elusive club; just try breaking in. These people matter enough for me to reserve one day out of every seven just...
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Jun 27th, 2016
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article by Meredith McKinnie Baseball began in February this year, and I’ve never seen Boyfriend so excited. He had recently transferred from a head coaching position at one school to an assistant position at another to learn from a longstanding head coach he much respected. He wanted to learn from t...
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Jun 2nd, 2016
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I Hate Gay People article by Meredith McKinnie It’s not a sentiment. It’s a statement. Thankfully it’s one I haven’t heard in person in quite some time. Sure, randomly we encounter an ignorant post or condemnation, but verbally, in my face, not for years. So that day, when he made that statement, I w...
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Apr 27th, 2016
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by Meredith McKinnie It was a fresh out of college Southern fairytale. He proposed; she said yes; everyone rejoiced, well…everyone but me. I remember the day I saw the Facebook post from her mother announcing the engagement. I was aghast, and mad, and frankly, disappointed. She was only twenty years ...
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Apr 5th, 2016
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article by Meredith McKinnie Sixteen years ago, I made the decision to not attend a popular college four hours south and instead stayed home and went to ULM, an institution only one year removed from its former name as Northeast Louisiana University. My best friend made the same decision. And admitte...
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In Meredith's Musings
Mar 2nd, 2016
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by Meredith McKinnie I was in a meeting of powerful women the other day, and I mean career powerful, educated in their respective fields for decades and clawed their way to the top women. Our meeting was about celebrating women and educating the next generation about success and leading by example. I...
