“We put homeless veterans first.” That’s the welcoming slogan of Little Rock’s Drop-in Day Treatment Center on Second Street. Estella Morris, a diminutive manager with an easy smile and a quiet authority, presides over the Center which offers meals, shelter, medical care and a leg up in the world to those veterans willing to play by the rules. Ninety percent of the 50 or more veterans who visit the facility every day (95 percent are men) have an addiction to alcohol or other drugs, which … [Read more...]
After struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Ex-Combat Marine dedicates life to helping others
Ex-Marine and Vietnam War Veteran Bob G. is the unofficial face of Recovery Central, a new Little Rock facility for 12-Step meetings, mainly Narcotics Anonymous. An alcoholic and former methamphetamine addict, Bob sponsors more people than he can count. And he does it by the book (See The Narcotics Anonymous Step Working Guides and Working Step Four in Narcotics Anonymous). When Bob G. is your sponsor, you can figure you’re going to spend a year working with him on the steps. And you’re going … [Read more...]
A new approach to growth and recovery
By Jan Kucala Every day modern kids have to make choices that we as parents, teachers and counselors may never have dreamed about when we were kids. Kids are under more stress today than previous generations. For many the word “family” may not evoke images of love and support but rather arguments and disconnection. Kids hear parents worrying about their jobs and money; they may be responsible for younger siblings; they're under pressure to do well in school and get into colleges; they're under … [Read more...]
Blackout
Blackouts are periods of intoxication during which the individual is unable to form or store new memories, though he or she appears to be awake and alert. It is not a good sign. By Ron T Mark came to at 30 miles an hour. This was just an estimate because his attention was in the rearview mirror. They seemed to be chasing him, these freakish-looking men. As his focus returned he could see carnival booths passing by. My God, he surmised, I am on the midway. The Arkansas State Fair is not … [Read more...]
Lit-A Memoir
Review by David Palmer By Mary Karr Harper Collins “Age seventeen, stringy-haired and halter-topped, weighing in the high double digits and unhindered by a high school diploma, I showed up at the Pacific ocean, ready to seek my fortune with a truck full of extremely stoned surfers.” With this opening paragraph in Lit, her third memoir, Mary Karr, author of Liar’s Club and Cherry; a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry; and a Peck professor of literature at Syracuse University, takes us on a wild, … [Read more...]
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