Remember that week in March 2020 when Maine was getting its first glimpse of pandemic lockdown?
That was the week that Steven Knockwood was released from prison, where he’d been serving a sentence...
From Prison to Law School to Mountain Rescue
Christopher Poulos was born and raised in Portland, Maine, graduated from the University of Maine School of Law in 2016, and is now the executive director of the Washington Statewide...
Joe K. is one of many men that came to Alcoholics Anonymous through a mandated addiction rehabilitation center. The facility mandated 12 meetings a month but participants could choose which program they wanted to attend. Joe and some other guys went...
Marshall Mercer, 40, lost his identity at birth.
His parents, both addicts, were never really in his life, and he was raised by his grandparents instead.
“I had no identity, just pain,” he says.
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Staying the Course - A winding road to recovery sends a message of hope
That early morning in March 2002, it seemed like every other snowstorm. I was the assistant manager at a convenience store, and they had...
I am sixty-one years old. Not quite senior, but certainly approaching the cusp. I have reflected on words my father spoke often to my brothers and me growing up in Pittsburgh.
“Today is the youngest...
