A few weeks ago, a man with a golden voice was videotaped on the streets. He became an instant celebrity, and his feel-good, plucked-from-obscurity-and-poverty story was featured in every possible media outlet.

Yet as I watched the face of the homeless alcoholic/addict splashed across my television screen, it made me...

"It's not like he's getting drunk and driving," a woman said about her husband.

"Does he text and talk on the cell while driving?" I asked

She nodded. "Do you think it would make a difference to those he's putting in danger if they were harmed because of drunkenness...

I was the invisible child who did all manners of crazy things to be noticed, the teenager who had suffered abuse, rape, and the suicide of her 30-year-old mother, who fell into addiction after addiction to escape the pain of every new day, and who finally at the age of...

We arrived in millions in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. We are the Baby Boomers and we are at last ready (or almost ready) for retirement. Yet many of us have run into unforeseen problems, and find ourselves:

• Too old to be young, too young to be old

•...

Most of us at some time or another have walked into a house and wondered how the residents can live the way they do -- under mounds of stuff. Often times we are shocked. They don't look like the type. Why would live that way? Shouldn't they be able to...

"You'd cut off your nose to spite your face" is an old saying that speaks to us of our refusal to forgive others and ourselves. Who carries the burden of anger that affects our lives if we are unwilling to forgive? Anger held onto becomes resentment, and resentment leads to...

Numb the pain! Take it away! I can't deal with it! These are the underlying thoughts of addicts while indulging in their addictions. That is the mindset they carry with them into recovery. But, before they go into withdrawal many are given prescription drugs to make the transition easier, i.e.;...

My son is dead. My fear of losing his love, the choices I made based on my own guilt and shame, my enabling, cost him his life. When he got involved with drugs and alcohol I made excuses for him and convinced myself we didn't need outside help. When he...

With alcoholics, you can smell it, drug addicts, you can tell it, but sex addicts don't run around with porn hanging out of their pockets acting out in public. Some hook up in all the places any non-addicts meet, some are indulging in the addiction behind closed doors, and others...

It's like a train wreck. We want to look away, but we can't. We sit by stunned as they flash mug shots of favorite movie stars drunk and disheveled across the television screen. Beloved talk show hosts are fighting obesity in public. Super models, every bone visible, are speaking up...