What I Didn’t Know About Addiction I didn’t know anything about addiction.  Why would I?  I mean why would I even register that thought in my mind?  No one in my family was affected by it and I lived in my little suburban bubble thinking nothing like...

Today is Tuesday, August 24, 2021. It will be 19 days until my daughter has been gone 2 years. I just reread this post and was stunned by the raw, gutteral feelings that I was able to convey to all of you who read it. Reliving that day will never be easy but I also...

Addiction & Grief Journal I certainly never set out thinking that I would someday call my journal an addiction and grief journal. But these are my own words about how I felt dealing with the addiction of my daughter and then the grief of losing her. Maybe by...

This Is My Story Of Living With My Daughter's Addiction It's important for me that I tell my story about living with my daughter's addiction and how it all began. And, how I have been able to keep hope alive during it all. Over these past ten years, my life has been...

I Was Angry At Heroin Three days after my daughter died of a heroin overdose, I wrote this “Letter To Heroin” and posted it on my Facebook page.  I remember lying in my bed unable to move, tears streaming down my face. Never had I felt pain like that and it was...