Fear and Anger and Pain

In my last post I described a little of what Mike and I’s teenaged years felt like. To continue on that thread I will tell you that by the time Mike was around 15/16 years old he was deeply buried in the swirling world of his constant drug use, trying to keep his demons fromContinue reading “Fear and Anger and Pain”

Into the Shadows

The last place we left off before I went on hiatus from this blog was how my brother Mike struggled in his earliest years, and how the people and systems around him were already failing to meet his needs from the very start, how his community was failing to support and properly love him atContinue reading “Into the Shadows”

How Did I End Up Here?

I’m baaaaaaack… did you miss me? (said in the voice of Gossip Girl) I know, I know, I left everyone hanging for 3 years while I went into my little hidey hole. Opening up your heart to the world is a scary endeavor after all, and I was still deeply in the trenches of myContinue reading “How Did I End Up Here?”