Bob G. served with the U.S. Marines in Vietnam for sixteen months and for many years has been treated for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) stemming from his combat service during the late sixties. During the thirty-two years after his service, overcome by his fears, anger, and addictions, he lost his family and went to prison three times—once for murder. He also attempted suicide ten times. At one point, he was given a year to live because of his numerous afflictions. When you hear … [Read more...]
Death in the afternoon. How can we save our children?
I first heard about the dreadful boating accident on Oklahoma’s Grand Lake from my grandson, Nick. He was driving me to pick up my car at the Honda garage and had just heard about it from a college friend on his I-phone. The message was that two of his classmates at the University of Arkansas had been killed that afternoon and that drugs and alcohol had been involved. The facts that began to emerge were that John DeSelms, also a University of Arkansas student, had driven a 22-foot Cobalt … [Read more...]
Movie to open in August ‘Step Away From The Stone’ offers hope and recovery
When actress Karen McCann put out a casting call for her new movie, Step Away From The Stone, 300 actors and would be actors, diverse in both age and race, showed up at Little Rock’s Rep theater for tryouts. McCann, who heads Rock Productions, a movie production firm, chose 150, and the shooting began three weeks later. McCann, who, in addition to producing the movie, wrote the script and is the leading lady, is not what you’d call your average Hollywood producer. In fact, in early … [Read more...]
In Search of the Transformed Life and the Blessings of Recovery
By David Palmer Let us agree at the outset that the United States has a huge substance abuse problem. “On any given day,” Joseph A. Califano Jr. writes in his book High Society, “100 million Americans are taking some stimulant, antidepressant, tranquilizer or painkiller; smoking; inhaling from aerosol cans or glue bottles; or self-medicating with alcohol or illegal substances like marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and other designer drugs. “Chemistry,” … [Read more...]
Sought Through Prayer and Meditation
Wisdom from the Sunday 11th Step Meetings At the Wolfe Street Center in Little Rock Geno W., with William G. Borchert Hazelden Foundation The Eleventh Step: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. This book of meditations is a wonderful collaboration of two gifted men, the late Geno W. whose 11th Step meetings at the Wolfe Street Center in Little Rock … [Read more...]
