The boy was 12. He had been drinking heavily since he was 11. He was tall and skinny and what his mom called “cute.” He stood outside liquor stores and paid a dollar to the seediest adult he could find…
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December, 2009 Archive
A Personal Story: A Family Intervention
Non Resolution Day
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Author, Essayist, Social Commentator
Once upon a time, when I was a teenaged wild woman, I stood shoulder to shoulder with the masses…
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Worry tomorrow. Cool it today!
“People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.” John Jay…
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Jiminy Cricket: Conscience was his game
“The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.” Izaak Walton, 17th century author of “The Compleat Angler”
Megan Meier was a lonely 13 year old whose depression, weight and ADD almost guaranteed low self esteem. So, like many…
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Do you need help cutting down on your drinking?
If you are the abuser, don’t cry “foul” if an intervention team shows up at your home one day – or morning – or even at sunset. And remember one thing always, no matter how tough you may have been…
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Does your child need intervention?
If so, you need to speak to your spouse as soon as possible to decide how and when you will do this, and as quickly as possible. Forget detachment; you wouldn’t stand outside the door while the house was burning…
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Forgive others. Forgive yourself.
Making amends to others is easy. Forgiving yourself is much more difficult. Lane Brandon
My first roommate invited a handsome male to our small apartment one night. I must have monopolized his time because that night, as I lay half asleep,…
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Magic, magic everywhere!
“I don’t stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.” Marlon Brando, American Actor
My friend David says all he wants from life is a new day, a fresh start and some surprise…
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Are You a Scissor?
“In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone’s letter.” Chinese Proverb
U.S. Army General Colin Luther Powell, who served in both Republican and Democratic administrations, is an American…
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Where Were You?
“Where were you… when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons (and daughters) of God shouted for JOY?” Bible, Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
The Christmas tree leans slightly to the left; the dog ran through its…
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