Story archives - tag: "recovery"

just a plastic tape player

Fifteen years after my question crushed her foot, she called me from the chair lift, about to ski for the first time since I was three.

tags: childhood recovery mother question car crash [add]

2010-03-29 14:08:38 / Rating: 220.75 /

Know more now

I didn't understand that he asked for six sugars in his coffee because it helped him keep feeling high.

tags: drugs recovery service learning [add]

2010-02-25 08:07:13 / Rating: 165.25 /

Lyddie

He'll never know how moving it was for me to watch him write "love" on his arms because I'll never tell him how many years I've spent carving hate into mine.

tags: self injury self harm love recovery [add]

2008-11-14 15:19:24 / Rating: 747.25 /

Tomahawk

That quiet summer night in the emergency room was the first time I saw my father cry.

tags: shock pain recovery [add]

2007-04-16 12:46:45 / Rating: 435 /