My mother was a wonderful woman. My chosen memories are of feeling loved and cherished. Comforted. Of skinned knees lovingly bandaged (with 5-year old me pissed off because she’d say she was sorry. “You didn’t do it!”) I don’t remember her ever hitting me, but the threat of “a lickin’”… Continue reading
Jonathan was a friend I met while at Lowell House Men’s Recovery Home. When he got there his kids were with strangers, he didn’t even have visitation privileges. Their mother wasn’t in the picture. Over the course of several months Jonathan went through a lot of work to get visitation,… Continue reading
What is “GYST” and why a manifesto? GYST stands for Get Your Sh!t Together. GYST4Life! is about sharing my journey of getting my own stuff* together. The current leg of this journey started in January 2018. That’s when I started what I call “Recovery III.” GYST4Life! is about sharing with… Continue reading