The Sacred Pause

Part 4 of “The Thread-Puller” — A Careiance Story Series * * * There is someone we love who is dying. I am not going to tell you her name or her diagnosis or the particular way her body is being taken from her. That story belongs to her and to the people sitting...

The Thread and the Loom

Part 3 of “The Thread-Puller” — A Careiance Story Series * * * My mornings start the same way. Meditation. Red light. Affirmations. Coffee. Carmen — my little dog — settles onto my lap for a few minutes, then moves to her bed under the desk once she senses I’m about...

When Love Has to Build the Door

Part 2 of “The Thread-Puller” — A Careiance Story Series * * * My son called me on a Sunday. He’s a grown man — forty-four years old, an architect of systems, someone who builds things for a living. He is not the kind of person who calls his mother in tears. But that...

The Thing You Carry Without Noticing

Part 1 of “The Thread-Puller” — A Careiance Story Series * * * The woman on the phone was very polite. Very professional. And she was about to rearrange everything I thought I knew about my own body. “Ms. McMeekin, I’m calling from the lab regarding your blood...

Chips and Presence

Connecting Presence How a sick child, a text message, and potato chips proved that presence is the most powerful practice You know that feeling when someone in your household is testing you? Not openly defiant. Just… distant. Dismissive. Like they’re...