As a teenager I spent three summers racing a Sailfish on Sunday afternoons on Delaware Bay. The extremes of sailing offer a couple of parallels to living with active addiction and an addict in recovery. Sailing “close hauled,” involves taking a...
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The American Library Association annual conference in Chicago has come and gone, and I was privileged to be a part of it signing books for Central Recovery Press and Consortium Book Sales Distributors. THANK YOU, All! Interesting business, book...
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Sometimes I am overcome with sadness. The one I raised is disappearing into a stranger. I don’t know how to live with this loss day after day, night after night. I am lost as well. — BV So begins Chapter 5 of IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU — EXCEPT WHEN IT...
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CNN ran an interesting program that took my breath away on March 2 regarding prescription drug addiction. Poppy Harlow spent a night interviewing women in the Cooke County Jail in eastern Tennessee where the sheriff reported that...
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