May 15, 2020
The other day I received one of those notifications on FaceBook that remind us of posts we made in the past. They were about Lauren 6 years ago. I remember that day, we laughed quite a bit over these images. Read more…
May 1, 2020
The other day I learned of a family whose lives have been ravaged by the coronavirus. The husband works in an environment that is high risk and contracted the virus despite proper safety protocol. Clearly, without his knowledge he brought Read more…
April 3, 2020
Crisis, that’s a word that we quickly become familiar with when someone we love is trapped in addiction or living with a mental health issue. There is always crisis. Sometimes they may seem insignificant to us but to our loved 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…
February 18, 2020
For the past three weeks we have looked at three categories one of which every person falls into relating to addiction. Those three categories are: Addiction isn’t an issue for me so how can I support those I love and Read more…
February 7, 2020
One of the hardest questions for me to answer is why I did not see signs that would have indicated the battle my daughter was facing with addiction to heroin sooner. I wish I had a simple answer, but I Read more…
January 31, 2020
Last week we were all sadly reminded of the frailty of life. A helicopter carrying one of our world’s superstars with some family and friends crashed killing everyone on board. Shortly after in another part of the world another helicopter Read more…
January 17, 2020
In 2018 for the first time in decades, death from drug overdoses declined by just over 5%. That is the first time that has happened since 1990. While many states showed significant decline some showed a continued increase. Missouri and Read more…
January 4, 2020
This Christmas I received a wonderful gift from my wife. It was digitized versions of all the tapes we had since before our children were born. The majority of these were when our children Lauren and Evan were under the Read more…
December 20, 2019
The other day I was reading, and a statement in the book arrested my attention. It was in the story of a young woman named Celia. Celia lived in at the epicenter of the extremes of addiction. The kind of Read more…
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