Meet The Author - Meghan J. Ward

Wayfinding Off the Beaten Path: Stories from Lights to Guide Me Home

Meghan J. Ward didn't set off to write a memoir, but sometimes a book takes on a life of its own. In this presentation, she'll talk about the genesis of the book, her changing relationship with adventure, and the parallel journeys of world travel and self-exploration. She'll also read from the Lights to Guide Me Home and take time for audience questions on any manner of subjects, from writing to world travel with kids.

Meghan will be joining us on Thursday, January 12th, at 7:00pm in the Friends Program Room for this Meet the Author event.

This Meet the Author event has been funded by the National Readings Program.

"Lights to Guide Me Home: A Journey Off the Beaten Track in Life, Love, Adventure, and Parenting"

This debut memoir is at once a captivating travelogue and an introspective look at what it takes to navigate the unfamiliar and find your way back home. Meghan J. Ward was 21 years old when she journeyed across the country for a summer job in the Canadian Rockies. As an inexperienced hiker from the suburbs of the nation’s capital, she knew she was in for an adventure.

But what she didn’t know was that her move to the mountains would result in a 90-degree turn towards a life she never expected. In Lights to Guide Me Home Meghan takes us on a trip around the world while chronicling her transitions through some of life’s major milestones. From Costa Rica to Nepal, Rapa Nui to Malta, Meghan explores what it means to carve out her own identity amidst family expectations, her responsibilities as a parent to young children, and her marriage to an ambitious travel and landscape photographer.

Whom will she discover beneath these entanglements?