Polar Bear in a Snowbank
polar bear in a snowbank
Filed under: Alcoholism
6:45 on a Saturday morning and I’m already running away. Yelled at my daughter, argued with my wife. Now I’m isolating. Old behavior. I ask myself the following question while sitting in an empty Jiffy Lube parking lot: Did I hit my knees this morning, first thing? I think we know the answer. I went …
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, Ayana Mathis
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Hattie’s story really begins in Georgia, when she is 15 and fleeing with her mother and sister. Her father’s blacksmith shop has been taken over by white men who have murdered him. They escape to Philadelphia where Hattie sees, for the first time, whites and blacks intermingling. It is there that sh …
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CBS 48 Hours Special on Chicago Drug Wars Features IADDA Member
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Hadiya Pendleton (Chicago) – Hadiya Pendleton was just 15 when she was shot dead near her Chicago school, the unintended victim of a gang battle. She died just a week after attending President Barack Obama’s second inauguration and became a high-profile name added to a growing list of people killed …
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