A Son’s Letter Never Sent to His Dad
From surviving abuse as a child to battling alcoholism as an adult. Regrets, forgiveness, and the peace to move on. — It’ll be 12 years this April since my sister, your oldest daughter, called me...
View ArticleChoices and Consequences – How I Survived Alcohol and Suicide
From drinking to get through life, to taking pills because he wanted to die, to accepting that living was a choice he was capable of making. — By the time I was 24 years old, I long ago passed that...
View ArticleMy Father Beat Me For Not Being a Racist
He didn’t know why his father wanted MLK dead, and he didn’t know what the KKK was. But he knew his father was a racist, and he wasn’t going to be like him. — Although I was only five and a half years...
View ArticleMike Huckabee, From Bad Historian To Racist
View image | gettyimages.com Christopher MacNeil challenges Mike Huckabee’s recent political statements and asks the former governor to be held accountable. _____ In 1857, The U.S. Supreme Court...
View ArticleDangerous Tipping Point: Implied Political Power and the Religious Right’s...
View image | gettyimages.com Kim Davis will not win her showdown, but we would all do well to suit up for another civil liberties’ battle. — A ruling Sept. 15 by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals and...
View ArticleKim Davis, Would You Mind Terribly Just Going Away?
View image | gettyimages.com Did Davis collect marriage licenses issued to gay couples during her jail hitch and issue new ones that removed all mention of the Rowan County clerk’s office and its...
View ArticleExplaining the 13th Sobriety Step, and it’s Not What You Think
View image | gettyimages.com The 13th step does not concern social media, but centers on an issue paramount to an addict’s chance at lasting recovery. — As an alcoholic who is probably an “old-timer”...
View ArticleA Mans Life Of Tragedy and Depression: It Doesn’t Define Him
Chronic depression does not have to define and control us — “Coming of age” is the term usually reserved for our awakening to sexual feelings and urges, the loss of our virginity. Mine was neither....
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