Recently, my son was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for a fentanyl-related overdose death. That day, I lost my son to a prison cell. I am a mother, and I am also the mother of a son who has struggled with addiction. I am writing because the public deserves to hear the other side of a ...
I saw a post on social media challenging people to write a horror story in just ten words. Ha! Amateurs. I can do it in three. If you’re over 50, brace yourself. Turn on all the lights, be sure you have company and have some Ben and Jerry’s ready for the emergency you’re about to ...
When I was in high school, a boy I had dated for a long time and I broke up, the way that high school relationships end. He decided to tell people we had sex, which we had not. A mutual friend told me what she had heard, and I responded that was not what happened. I remember vividly, as though ...
Twenty-five years ago, many Americans woke up on September 12 to a country that felt different. The shock and grief were overwhelming, but so was the way people responded to one another. Strangers helped strangers, communities rallied around those who were hurting, and displays of American ...
Some of our most challenging, lifelong learning happens when we’re long into life. The things we learn as we grow older are sometimes more difficult to accept than the things we learn as we gallop through the middle years of life, dragging our kids through their growing up years, trying to ...
One day, just before this year's Fourth of July, I spent an hour searching through old posts in the Facebook group for my Libby (Montana) High School class of 1978. As the 250th anniversary of our country was approaching, I was feeling some nostalgia for the proud and happy celebrations of ...
