Sublime

“Doogie Howser,

ersatz.

Parents of addicts learn to temper our hope even as we never completely lose hope. However, we are terrified of optimism, fearful that it will be punished. It is safer to shut down. But I am open again, and as a consequence I feel the pain and joy of the past and worry about and hope for the future. I know what it is I feel. Everything.

Emily was perpetually at two or less hearts, but she was able to make a living.

could only have come from someone who had been chronically ill and understood the indignities of hospital life.

mais est-ce que c'était une vie, d'être constamment sous l'emprise de la morphine ? À vrai dire Jed pensait que oui, que c'était même une vie particulièrement enviable, sans soucis, sans responsabilités, sans désirs ni sans craintes, proche de la vie des plantes, où l'on pouvait jouir de la caresse modérée du soleil et de la brise. Il soupçonnait p

When Mom came home a few months later, she brought a new vocabulary along with her. She regularly recited the Serenity Prayer, a staple of addiction circles in which the faithful ask God for the “serenity to accept the things [they] cannot change.” Drug addiction was a disease, and just as I wouldn’t judge a cancer patient for a tumor, so I shouldn

Schafer and his wife, Mollie Fry, a doctor, opened a medical marijuana dispensary after Fry started using the drug to alleviate complications from chemotherapy. Despite operating the business within California state law, Schafer and Fry had their home raided by the feds, who confiscated thirty-four plants. But the feds insisted that, since they had