March 15, 2019
Last week I ran head long into three difficult stories in the fight to recovery. One story was a young person who is making the transition from a protected (all activities are supervised and monitored) recovery environment to life back Read more…
March 8, 2019
Hi Dad! That’s the way my daughter always greeted me, and she would say it with a certain, sweet cadence in her voice, it always made me smile. More and more when I look at images of Lauren I am Read more…
March 1, 2019
One of the hardest things to understand about someone that is addicted is that amidst all the hurt and pain, they really do, desperately, need you. The journey of grief is different for all of us. It is something that Read more…
February 22, 2019
The other day, as I sat in a bank parking lot waiting for my son to make a deposit, a question popped into my mind, “What is this going to feel like twenty years from now?” This week was Evan Read more…
February 15, 2019
This weeks featured image is one of my favorites of our family. We were very happy and excited. It was an important milestone in our children’s lives. Evan and Lauren were heading to college and along with that experience was Read more…
February 8, 2019
Recently I was at an event for Pastors in my area. One of the Pastors there had heard of our losing Lauren. We talked for a bit, and he expressed his condolences. A little later in the conversation he asked: Read more…
February 1, 2019
Last week was my 63rd birthday. A few friends stopped by our house. We enjoyed some laughs, memories, and an awesome Italian cake from Del Prete’s in Bridgeport, CT. It was a Cassata Cake – rum cake with cannoli filing Read more…
January 25, 2019
When you really care about someone with a mental health issue or an addiction, and sometimes both, life is a constant series of ups and downs. In some ways not dissimilar to normal life only greatly magnified. “Disheartened” is a Read more…
January 18, 2019
About a week ago someone gave my wife and I some old photographs of my son Evan (Laurens twin brother) and Lauren when they were four months old. WOW, the first thing my wife said was “We look really tired”, Read more…
January 11, 2019
Most people that know me well know that I love anything that flies: kites, drones and especially planes. The other day I happened to see a video of a pilot landing a twin-engine Cessna – an incredible aircraft – that Read more…
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