“Dad, why aren’t you helping during baseball practice anymore?” A question from my son, a question I knew was coming and even with that I…
What a beautiful day! It is amazing when you are somewhat clean how your receptors start to repair allowing you to be able to sense and…
As mentioned in Part 1 an offer to work cleaning the church was accepted and ultimately played a major role in my life. We continued…
Sunday. Let me explain as I have been to prison twice, county jails too many times to count, years tangled within my own web of…
My wife Catherine and I recently attended a commencement speech at a High School Graduation where we listened as a speaker traveled through an amazing…
I survived death. I hear a banging from a distant, dark, echoing tunnel. I can’t focus in on exactly why, where or even what it…
There is not an addict out there that has not asked themselves consciously or subconsciously “Why me?” Addiction has been around for centuries. The first…
Let me set the scene: It’s 1967, maybe 68. I am around 8 years old and just starting to explore thoughts beyond, “where to play?”,…
You know one day we hear “masks are good,” then we hear “masks don’t make much of a difference.” Then we hear “don’t use a…
Not too long ago my wife and I were watching a documentary about a jail. We witnessed the behavior of an obviously mentally ill inmate…