My first Altar
For those of you who don’t know, an Alter is a raised structure or place used for both prayer and worship. Upon the altar are functional and symbolic items used…
Continue readingTo close for comfort
Things at Tom and Stacy’s was getting out of hand, they were fighting almost all the time and Tom was bouncing between staying with us and his dad. I was…
Continue readingA familiar escape
When the time came for me to leave the detention center it was harder than I had expected. I had grown a bond with these people and they had helped…
Continue readingGrowing a family
I got pictures and letters sometimes weekly, I had even begun writing back. Although things in my day to day life were still a bit of a mess I was…
Continue readingNoticeable abandonment
Stacy losing the boys like that was the first time I had really seen and or felt the loss of drug addiction. Although it wasn’t my loss I still felt…
Continue readingPutting in the work
After the last court date I knew I just had to work harder to prove to all the adult in charge that I was going to do the right thing…
Continue readingNew beginnings
As most of you know I have been working towards starting a NA meeting in my local area. As of today all of my ducks are in a row and…
Continue readingRefocusing
As some of you may have noticed the last few weeks my posts seem to be spastic and irregular. For this I apologize. I know that it can be frustrating…
Continue readingFighting for a light
You see Hopevale was the school I had just started going to the year before all of the craziness began to happen and I wanted to be there because I…
Continue readingA different cell
We had finally come up with a plan the seemed flawless, it seemed flawless because we were teenagers in all reality it was probably the worst plan we could have…
Continue readingThe first real loss
It was chaos the moment I opened the door. The kind of chaos you could never be prepared for. I had thought I had been gone long enough that the…
Continue readingA familiar calm
I had taken a break from finding comfort in a razor for awhile at this point, mostly because I was in lock up and had no time or way to…
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