Terri Blackstock‘s new book Intervention was inspired by her personal experiences with her daughter’s addictions. Six years ago she became aware that her daughter (then in her early twenties) had a severe prescription pill addiction that was killing her, and she hired an interventionist to convince her daughter to go to treatment. After a grueling few hours, her daughter agreed …
Learning about prayer at my Mama’s knees
When I was a little girl, my father smoked. In fact, one of my first memories of him was listening to Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass, playing on the front porch while he smoked a cigar.He had a three packs a day habit. In the early ’60s, a lot of people smoked. My paternal grandmother smoked. My uncles and …