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The Tragic End - It has been two-and-a-half years since my last post, and the story has recently taken its most tragic twist. First I need to add a little to my story below. There was a part that I deliberately left out of one of my entries, because of my fear of con... - 2009/09/15 Fighting the Devil - I've come down with an out of season cold. I rarely get sick as it is, so the fact that I've been hit now is a testament to how stressed I am. But right now I have an even bigger illness to fight - my dad's addiction to methamphetamine. Monday mornin... - 2009/09/15 Father's Day - It's Father's Day. I've been apprehensive about this day for a while now -- particularly since the incident with Jon and my dad happened. Friday I agonized over what to do. Do I send a card? Call my dad? Do nothing? Finally I settled on sending a car... - 2009/09/15 Adding Insult to Injury - Most of the remainder of my Father's Day was spent a miserable, crying wreck. A few hours after turning my grandmother down, my dad called. I let it go to the answering machine, and then sat nervously on the edge of my couch to see what he had to ... - 2009/09/15 The Passage of Time - Nearly a year has passed since I last added to this blog. So much has happened since then, though things are still far from over. I'll warn you that this entry will be extremely long. But I have nearly 11 months worth of stuff to write about. In my l... - 2009/09/15 Letting Go - I spent a long time in the months after the funeral working through my own grieving process. But it was weird because I had technically grieved his "death" a few years earlier when my dad went from being the man who raised me to the meth addict who d... - 2009/09/15
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