Meredith Resnick

The Odyssey of Tentinger

meredith — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:15:12 +0000

“Military membership is a higher calling,” says HMC (FMF) Larry Tentinger on why people gravitate to the armed forces. “My dad,” a Marine in Okinawa, “embodied the military core values in the way he lived his life,” he says…

Torn Apart

meredith — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:13:49 +0000

I don’t know when I started biting my nails. But by the time I was in the first grade, I couldn’t stop. My teeth serrated the edges of my fingernails, ripping away the half moons of new growth, leaving the tips of my nail beds, at times, exposed and tender…

We Didn’t Need the Past–Or So I Thought

meredith — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:28:44 +0000

Last year my husband and I were in St. Petersburg, Russia, meeting the family who had given up our daughters for adoption. I didn’t want to go. I didn’t want my daughters to go either…

Formidable Tante Esthère

meredith — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:23:04 +0000

I didn’t know the word as a child, but intimidated was what I felt around Aunt Esther. She was a world traveler, and sometimes she’d even come all the way from Manhattan on the diesel train to stay the weekends with us in Yonkers…

Mama Is a Four-Letter Word

meredith — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:29:48 +0000

August was hot, the air conditioner droned, and my mother burrowed beneath the blankets of her four-poster bed. Tiny aisles of carpet led to the bathrooom and kitchen, where she wobbled back and forth, using thee packing cartons as handrails…