Below is the transcript of a basic speech I put together for Toastmasters several months ago. I plan to expand this speech and mix it up with some other stories and tell it wherever people are interested in hearing it! If you know of any podcasts or radio shows or audiences who might enjoy an…
What follows is a story from my childhood. The brief background: when my sister and I were six and eight years old, our mother kidnapped us (at our request) to protect us from our abusive father, who had won custody of us. We lived as fugitives for seven years. Five of those years were in…
If you’re my age or older, you might remember a time during the 1980s when the pictures of missing children appeared on the sides of milk cartons. I remember sitting at the kitchen table and asking about those pictures and feeling very apprehensive that a scary stranger might try to kidnap me. Not long after that,…
Hey, everyone! I’m excited to host my first ever guest post on the blog! This is a true story, written by my mom, Rhoda Friend. It will appear in the book we are co-writing: Seven Years Running. I’ll let you jump right in and enjoy. Take it away, Mama!…………It was my day to volunteer at…
Four different people have sent me the same link to a news story that broke this week about a girl who was kidnapped by her mother and found hiding in Mexico. It’s not uncommon for friends to let me know when a story like this comes up because it always reminds them of my own childhood…