A holiday remix.
Sober parenting
+10
"The meeting went on as usual, and neither one shared or got into a fistfight with the other, but in the end, we all stood in a circle holding hands."
Grace
+3
+9
More amends issues. The Prophet. Hard poems and good tunes.
Dementia
+4
Notes on a birthday. Poems. Tunes.
+5
Notes on Father's Day. Sebastian Junger. Philip Schultz.
An interview with our resident interventionist, Joe Schrank, about how to help the addict you love during the holidays. Plus our usual recovery rundown and a dreamy Frank O'Hara classic.
+11
More dementia stuff. Four Agreements revisited. Plus, a good haunting Linda Pastan poem, mirth amidst the ruins et cetera.
"Once I finally crossed over to the he-did-the-best-he-could side of the aisle it was too late for us to reconcile, or for him to remember me."
