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January 2002

Ghostbusters

Because I got sober when my son was still an infant, I entered the "terrible twos" of my sobriety just as he discovered the joys of life as a toddler. And I discovered that a child's need for parental attention increases in direct proportion to the parent's need to be on the phone with her sober support system. A child who has completely ignored his mother for two hours will suddenly want to be in her lap upon hearing her dial the telephone.

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