At nearly every point in my life, Melanie Lawson has been a steady light guidingme, and I’ve never told her that.
Today, my friend, mentor and sorority sister announced she’s retiring from ABC 13, after an extraordinary 43-year run.
We were connected early. Our fathers, both now gone, were great friends from the same Kansas town. Melanie was my babysitter before I could string together a sentence, much less write a news story. My family attended Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, founded by her dad, the Rev. William A. Lawson…