Megan and Arden, Fall 2014
I met my spouse, Anthony Clark, during the first week of college at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. We started dating four years later, a month before graduation. It's hard to believe that was nearly fourteen years ago! We were married in 2008 and welcomed our daughter, Arden Lucia, into the world on November 12, 2013.
Family life has certainly changed over the past year. On a typical evening, you'll find all of us eating with our hands, crawling around on the floor, building up and knocking down towers of blocks, and reading Good Night Moon (over and over again). We have two cats, Jumelle and Hudson, who love to snuggle and consistently crack us up. Arden amazes us, fills our days with laughter, and has brought more love than we ever thought possible. We are a dual-career, hands-on-parenting family!
Family life has certainly changed over the past year. On a typical evening, you'll find all of us eating with our hands, crawling around on the floor, building up and knocking down towers of blocks, and reading Good Night Moon (over and over again). We have two cats, Jumelle and Hudson, who love to snuggle and consistently crack us up. Arden amazes us, fills our days with laughter, and has brought more love than we ever thought possible. We are a dual-career, hands-on-parenting family!
With Anthony's mother, Patty, step-father, Walt, sister, Gina, and Karissa and Joey
Anthony graduated in 2014 with degrees from Yale in Environmental Science and Business Administration. Currently in a one-year position as an Environmental Health and Safety Fellow at General Electric, he is also a semi-professional photographer and a dedicated clergy spouse.
We have loved living in New Haven, Connecticut for the past four years.
We prioritize meals and adventures with friends, visiting family both near and far, getting outside and into the woods and being involved in social justice and cultural communities here in this small, vibrant city we have come to call home.
We have loved living in New Haven, Connecticut for the past four years.
We prioritize meals and adventures with friends, visiting family both near and far, getting outside and into the woods and being involved in social justice and cultural communities here in this small, vibrant city we have come to call home.
Clint, Mary, Megan, Evan and Anthony
My younger brother, Evan, lives in New York City where he is in his first year of medical school. My parents, Mary Frederickson and Clint Joiner,
recently moved back to Atlanta, Georgia, where they grew up, after 25 years in Cincinnati, Ohio, where I was raised.
My mother is a university professor whose work focuses on race, class and gender in American history as well as current global affairs and medicine. My father is the director of Pediatric Hematology at Emory Medical Center where he focuses
on Sickle Cell Disease.
My maternal grandmother just turned 94 and is delighted to be back home in Atlanta. She loves watching videos of her great-grand-daughter!
recently moved back to Atlanta, Georgia, where they grew up, after 25 years in Cincinnati, Ohio, where I was raised.
My mother is a university professor whose work focuses on race, class and gender in American history as well as current global affairs and medicine. My father is the director of Pediatric Hematology at Emory Medical Center where he focuses
on Sickle Cell Disease.
My maternal grandmother just turned 94 and is delighted to be back home in Atlanta. She loves watching videos of her great-grand-daughter!
Arden in NY with her Grandpa Ted and Grandma "Noona"
Anthony’s family lives in New York’s Hudson Valley, and we often visit his parents and their spouses, his sister, Gina, and our young adult niece, Karissa, and teenage nephew, Joey, who are Arden's godparents. A wide network of extended family in the area means we see aunts and uncles and oodles of cousins on a regular basis.
Another branch of our family is in the Bay Area. Our dearest friend Julie and our two-year old "niece" Sylvia are just outside of San Francisco. We love video chatting with our chosen family!
Another branch of our family is in the Bay Area. Our dearest friend Julie and our two-year old "niece" Sylvia are just outside of San Francisco. We love video chatting with our chosen family!
Arden in the pulpit at Unity Chapel
For me, "family" is synonymous with the town of Spring Green, Wisconsin (just north of Madison) where we travel each summer. My ancestors, Richard and Mallie Lloyd Jones, immigrated to Spring Green from Wales in the late 19th-century, bringing their Unitarian faith along with them. Their ten children settled in the Wisconsin River Valley and in 1886 built a small chapel. Each summer we return to Unity Chapel, and I deliver one of the summer sermons. It is one of many "homes" I am so blessed to have.
