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…
February 21, 2020
Yesterday was our daughter Lauren’s 25th Birthday. This is the 3rd birthday we have celebrated with her in heaven. That last sentence is something that brings all of us: my wife, Evan and myself, lots of comfort and encouragement. I 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 13, 2020
The past week I have been thinking a lot about all the great times our family got to enjoy with Lauren. I was reminded that life is not a guarantee. Some of us get to enjoy loved ones in our 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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