A survivor of childhood sexual abuse now in recovery, Larry Ruhl finds himself adrift in the age of hookup apps.
alcoholism
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The Nearly Impossible Journey of a Long-Term Survivor
All they really wanted was to avoid getting into trouble for stealing a package of cigarettes.
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Mangilaluk’s Highway
On June 24, 1972, three boys decided to leave their residential school in Canada’s Northwest Territories and walk from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk (“Tuk”) in a bid to avoid punishment for stealing a pack of cigarettes from their dorm supervisor. Without a highway connecting Inuvik to Tuk, the boys had no idea they were undertaking an […]
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Language Acquisition
Diana Spechler recalls fleeing her life in New York City for a new one with a painter in his village in central Mexico.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
America’s First Addiction Epidemic
The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, astonishingly high mortality rates — and a successful sobriety movement.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
America’s First Addiction Epidemic
The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, astonishingly high mortality rates — and a successful sobriety movement.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
My Father’s Weakness for Beer Never Lessened His Strengths
Pauline Campos recalls her time with her late father, a functional alcoholic she never judged, and still reveres.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
My Father’s Weakness for Beer Never Lessened His Strengths
Pauline Campos recalls her time with her late father, a functional alcoholic she never judged, and still reveres.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The McSorley Poet
Rafe Bartholomew tells the story of his father — Geoffrey Bartholomew — who felt that his addiction to alcohol and his bartending job at famed McSorley’s in New York City had prevented him from achieving the dream of becoming a writer. Bartholomew quit the booze, but not the bar and wrote a self-published manuscript of […]
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The High-Water Mark: The Battle of Gettysburg, the Jersey Shore, and the Death of My Father
Contemplating history, family, and today’s America, Dane A. Wisher tells the story of spreading his father’s ashes on the battlefield at Gettysburg National Park and coming to terms with his life and death.