September 4, 2020
This past week was a challenging week for my wife and I. It was a time when we both missed Lauren quite a bit. That happens! As each year passes the wound of your loss begins to heal but the Read more…
August 7, 2020
Last week an old friend of mine asked an especially important question. She asked: “How do you continue to love the addict while, at the same time, setting boundaries so that you don’t end up enabling them or being destroyed Read more…
July 31, 2020
I received a few very encouraging notes this week from different people. I was grateful, they arrived at just the right moment. One of them highlighted a truth regarding the philosophy of We Chose Love. It is not easily received Read more…
July 3, 2020
This weekend marks several important events in my life and in the country in which I live, the United States of America. Tomorrow marks our Day of Independence, a very important day in the history of our country. John Adams Read more…
June 19, 2020
There are so many fond memories I have of our family and of course Lauren. LaLa ( a nickname Lauren got from a cousin who could not pronounce her name) and her brother Evan always loved playing on the hill Read more…
May 22, 2020
This week I read a post from a first-time mom. Her situation is unique because she is a foster mom. In her post she talked about the ambivalence (see last weeks post) of being a mom. A cool thing she Read more…
April 17, 2020
One of the things that reminds me most of my daughter Lauren is when I see little kids at what I call “the age of wonder”. It is a time that their lives are filled with innocence, wonder, happiness and Read more…
March 20, 2020
The other day I glanced at the picture of my daughter to the right. I was reminded of how her loss still makes absolutely no sense to me. It was pointless and did not have to happen …. But it Read more…
March 6, 2020
A few days after my daughter Lauren passed away I started reading a book entitled Terry: My Daughters Life-Long Struggle With Alcoholism . It is George McGovern’s passionate memoir of his daughter’s life as seen through the lens of her Read more…
February 29, 2020
When you stand at the end of a long battle with addiction or mental health that did not gain the outcome you hoped for there are two questions that loom large: Why, simply trying to answer why did this happen? Read more…
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