By Lydia’s House co-director, Mary Ellen Mitchell Meridith helped me write a short article that was published in this month’s Plough Magazine “Friendship” edition. Noting the theme, we wrote about our journey into shared life over the last quarter century. You can read the whole thing here (and in the new print copy), but this is an excerpt: In our work with women experiencing homelessness, we see the ties of family showing up when all others have failed. If you have one person, most often a mother or a sister, who will take you in or provide childcare in a