by MO VEAR | Dec 2, 2016 | Alcoholism, Blog, Family, Friends, Kids, Life Lessons, Motherhood, Recovery, Teaching, The more serious..., You Are Not Alone
I know of a man that died recently. He was three months shy of turning one-hundred and one. He was an alcoholic. Born in 1915 after the advent of the first world war, he lived through the Depression, the second world war, and the terrorists’ attacks on September...
by MO VEAR | Jan 6, 2017 | Blog, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Friends, Hope, Kids, Life Lessons, Love, Recovery, You Are Not Alone
Have you ever made a new year’s resolution that you truly intended to keep, only to chide yourself in the first week of January for failing to keep it? I did it for years and felt like a big, fat loser. But I went on making resolutions every year, even though my...
by MO VEAR | Dec 16, 2016 | Blog, Family, Friends, Hope, Kids, Life Lessons, Love, Motherhood, Recovery, Teaching, Writing, You Are Not Alone
Have you ever gotten through an entire day without feeling uncomfortable? After suffering a panic attack before teaching a writing class at the library last month, the director from a recovery house called to ask if I would consider teaching that same class to the...