By Kristi M. My name is Kristi and I am a very grateful recovering addict. It wasn’t always this way, though. I was born to parents who loved me but couldn’t love each other. They divorced when I was two, and my dad got custody. When I was seven my mom regained custody, and I […]
Wilbur Mills Center helps dads take responsibility
May 26, 2010 By
By David Palmer There are 24 million children in the United States — that’s one out of three — who live without their biological father. It is a problem with serious consequences. Children who live absent their biological fathers are at least two or three times more likely to be poor, to use drugs and […]
Choose Not To Fear
May 26, 2010 By
Choose not to fear By Ruth M. My Higher Power (MHP) likes to keep me busy with challenges. I have learned through the program that it’s not so healthy to create my own chaos, because the challenges MHP provides are quite enough thank you very much. I have heard over and over again, “God won’t […]
Complacency and the anatomy of a slip
May 26, 2010 By
By John C. In 1974, I was a young physician struggling with alcohol, baffled by my inability to live with it — or without it. One of my patients paid a house call on me — her hung-over doctor — and introduced me to the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. I was so thrilled to find […]
Today ‘Chef Jeff’ Henderson wants to change lives
May 26, 2010 By
By David Palmer ‘Chef Jeff’ Henderson is a former crack cocaine dealer who became a millionaire selling drugs on the streets of Los Angeles at age 19 and went to prison on a drug charge at 24 for 11 years. Today, Henderson, 45, is an award-winning chef, television personality (the Chef Jeff Project on the […]
Young people carry message, tackle adolescent tobacco addiction
May 26, 2010 By
By David Palmer Genine Perez, a dynamic 40-year-old with a big smile, big hair and a very busy Blackberry works on the front lines in the fight against smoking among adolescents and even younger children. If Perez can keep kids beginning as early as first grade and up through high school, from smoking, they may […]
Get out and stay out! Help for prison inmates grows
February 13, 2010 By
It’s no secret. Prison inmates have a tough time staying out of prison after they have been released. Estimates vary but one, accepted by many, says about three out of four commit another crime or break parole and end up behind bars again. They call this “recidivism.” Why do they do this? Hector Lozano with […]
My neighbor’s son died the other day
February 13, 2010 By
By Steve Straessle My neighbor’s son died the other day. He was a beautiful kid only 21 years into this world. Police and ambulance sirens blared as they raced up our street in an effort to revive him, but the sirens served only as an alarm that a life had been extinguished much too soon. […]
Faith keeps family together after tragedy
February 13, 2010 By
My husband and I are actively involved in several ministries in our church, and we were absorbed in planning for Christmas events including planning meals, making all kinds of lists and cleaning and decorating our house. In the midst of these thoughts the phone rang. When I answered, an unfamiliar male voice said, “Is […]
Avoiding Heartache
February 13, 2010 By
If you are pregnant don’t drink. If you are drinking don’t get pregnant By Cynthia Crone Don’t drink if you are pregnant or may become pregnant. Period. It sounds harsh, doesn’t it? It may to some, but not to those who are paying the price. Like this family. Ginny’s mother and father are having marital […]
