Raising twins and staying sober 24 hours at a time.
I don't like the "r" word. This word rehabs (another "r" word) want us to use is "relapse". I hate that word and I hate the notion that everybody relapses. They don't. They don't have to. It's not part of sobriety or recovery. It's not. Let's call it what it is, if you are sober …
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Like many of us who were coming of age in the mid-nineties, she was our voice. She was our anger that we couldn't quite focus enough to create anything purposeful except, well anger. When Jagged Little Pill came out in 1995, I had just graduated college and was living in my parents basement waiting tables …
When I first read Donna's Cancer Story, about 2 and a half years ago, I hadn't yet met Sheila (aka Mary Tyler Mom). I hadn't yet had babies. I wasn't pregnant, but longed to be so badly. I was facing a life without being able to get pregnant due to infertility. I had a child …
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