Love Detox

I went through alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal/detox on the top bunk in my sister’s basement – in a house full of toddlers. Three of

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Mission Essential

Mission Essential: We hear that term often in the military. These are the elements without which the plan fails, objectives are missed, and lives

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Choosing Every Day

I speak as the single mother of two pre-teens (8 year-old-boy and 12-year-old girl). I have also been a first-time mother at 20; the mother

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The Laundry Brigade

Day after day, we helped drag treasured family possessions outside into wet, rancid piles on the curb. At times, the piles were over 10

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