Author Archives: tmeredith2020

Some might say that it is unusual for a guy to have a best friend. I am not sure if that is true or not, but in any event, I am a guy, and I have a best friend: Michael J. Oliver, or Mike for short. Let me tell you a little bit about thisContinue reading “Michael J. Oliver, My Best Friend”

I have a colleague at work, Gene Purdie, whom I have never met in person, but for whom I find myself having a great deal of respect. Just the other day in our staff meeting, we were engaging in a holiday game over the video chat, and the question posed to us was whether orContinue reading “Gene Purdie”

What I am thinking about at the moment, and what I would like to reflect briefly on here, is a phenomenon that we might describe as the contrast between trying to “control” things and its opposite (or, perhaps, advancement), “turning it loose.” I am a person who struggles a lot with letting go of controlContinue reading “Control and ‘Turning it Loose’”

I’m grateful for my long-time friend Alex Hemingway. Thankfully, Alex knows that I am grateful for him and for the meaningful ways in which our lives have intersected over the years. Nevertheless, I would like to reflect briefly here on some of the ingredients which have made this friendship so tasty. To begin with, AlexContinue reading “Alex Hemingway, Surfer and Seeker”

This post could be called an un-gratitude post, as what I feel moved to write about tonight is something which both disappoints, and sickens, me: the opportunistic predators a.k.a. online gambling platforms. I guess, in a sense, you could say that I am grateful for these dastardly websites, because they remind me in an unmistakableContinue reading “Opportunistic Predators”

The Unknown Man at the Purdue Fountain, circa 2015, made a lasting impression on me, though he has absolutely no idea that he did. How did he make an impression, you might ask? Well, by the way that he was reading his book, that’s how. As I was sitting beside one of the fountains onContinue reading “The Unknown Man at the Purdue Fountain”

Out on my evening walk tonight (I almost always take a walk after work…it has become increasingly important to me for my overall well-being.), I encountered what appeared to be a stray cat. I say “appeared to be,” as there were no tags on it – tags being the way we humans have demonstrated “ownership”Continue reading “Lessons from a Stray Cat”

So I am grateful for this complicated man who is my father, Thomas W. Meredith, Jr. I’m not “Thomas W. Meredith, III,” because my “W” is different from my father’s “W.” Nonetheless, we are both Thomas W. Meredith, and the older I get the more I realize that a good deal of who and whatContinue reading “Thomas W. Meredith, Jr.”

I was thinking about Inge last night. Inge was a woman whom I saw for psychotherapy when I was in graduate school in Carrollton, GA. I saw her almost every week, for just shy of two years, between 2012-2014. When I think of Inge, a smile breaks out over my face, which is usually aContinue reading “Inge Mula Brookhuis, Licensed Professional Counselor”

This site has been a long time in coming. But, thankfully, it is here. The impetus behind its creation is, like life, both simple and complex. Simple, in that I have always felt that telling specific people how, and in what specific ways, they have made a difference in our lives can make a hugeContinue reading “Why I Started This Site”