Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.

The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.

I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

If you subscribe to the idea that #‎ addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious, bruised, tremulous, withered, in some cases psychotic - are seriously ill, slowly dying. We'd never allow such a scene if these kids had any other disease. They would be in a hospital, not on the streets.