By Nathan Coker
In Meredith's Musings
Sep 1st, 2023
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article by MEREDITH MCKINNIE Show me a stage, and you’ll get a performance. Growing up, I never feared the spotlight. Mom put me in dance lessons as a child, and I relished those classes. I loved the gracefulness of ballet, the smack of a tap shoe hitting the floor in cadence, the collective shimmy i...
By Nathan Coker
In Meredith's Musings
Jul 31st, 2023
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article by Meredith McKinnie It’s early spring, Friday afternoon. The sun is shining, the lush green landscape is resurfacing, and I have two more hours of freedom thanks to childcare. I never pictured myself being one of those people who enters a store simply to peruse the aisles. I shop on a missio...
By Nathan Coker
In Meredith's Musings
Jun 30th, 2023
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article by Meredith McKinnie They say that grief is unexpressed love, the realization that all your heart holds for someone can never be communicated directly to that person again. Our last conversation became The Last conversation. Our last argument seems more trivial than it did the day after. Our ...
By Nathan Coker
In Meredith's Musings
May 31st, 2023
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article by Meredith McKinnie Last summer, Husband and I remodeled much of the home we’ve owned since 2015. I completed a three-year study period for my comprehensive exams in February and enjoyed a brief reprieve before embarking on writing a dissertation. I longed to fill my days with anything nonac...
By Nathan Coker
In Meredith's Musings
May 2nd, 2023
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article by MEREDITH MCKINNIE Social situations are my strong suit. I feel comfortable interacting with people. I will not hesitate to start a conversation or extend a greeting beyond a basic exchange. I think well on my feet if the conversation is surface level. Talking to people is easy. I don’t fea...
By Nathan Coker
In Meredith's Musings
Mar 30th, 2023
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article by MEREDITH MCKINNIE A few months ago, I received an interesting request – to be a contact family for two exchange students from Tunisia. Having avidly played Globle over the course of the year, I knew Tunisia was in the northern part of Africa, though I knew little to nothing else abou...
By Nathan Coker
In Meredith's Musings
Feb 28th, 2023
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article by MEREDITH MCKINNIE Mothers are superheroes. I dislike that phrase – and feel free to insert any other title like teacher, nurse, etc. A superhero implies having strength beyond the norm, to supersede the possible to channel the impossible. Labeling someone a superhero, while it may fe...
By Nathan Coker
In Meredith's Musings
Jan 30th, 2023
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article by MEREDITH MCKINNIE Typical Saturday morning scenario – Big Sister bangs into our bedroom first, cradling a stuffed pig and a lamb. She crawls up the bench at the foot of our bed, throws Fluffy Oink Oink and Lamby over the footboard, and giggles relentlessly as she snuggles between her...
By Nathan Coker
In Features
Jan 6th, 2023
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article by MEREDITH MCKINNIE Growing up, Mom routinely took us to the pediatrician. I associated Dr. Bodron’s intense stare and half donut of white hair with knowledge. Men who looked like him in white coats knew things; they helped sick people. Since I rarely got sick, I only went for checkups. Othe...
By Nathan Coker
In Meredith's Musings
Dec 1st, 2022
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article by MEREDITH MCKINNIE Friday afternoon my girlfriend sped into the driveway and hopped out of the car with a magnanimous “Whoop!” We were hitting the road, headed to Fort Worth for the Judds Final Tour. My mother pulled in shortly after, and we loaded her bags into the Ford Explorer, stuffed t...
