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Melody Meeter

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Carla and Elsie and Ludwig

NOVEMBER 2012: AS WE SEE IT by Melody Meeter On December 17 at 5:00 a.m. I was paged at home by a nurse from labor and delivery. A baby had been born with Trisomy 13 syndrome and would not live long.1 The mother was asking for a priest, for baptism. I explained that it would take me about thirty minutes to get to the hospital and that in the meantime, in emergencies, it was permissible for anyone on staff, Christian…
Melody Meeter
November 1, 2012
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A Peacekeeping War

I witnessed this yesterday, in Morocco. I was on the train from Rabat to the Casablanca airport, on my way home to New York. Some of us stood by the doors with our luggage on the crowded train. A few feet away stood a young couple holding each other, crying. At the next stop he got off the train. He stood and waved, smiling, and then in one motion, as the train pulled away, he put his hands to his…
Melody Meeter
October 16, 2004