Why did I write Among the Sunflowers: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love for her son and his poetry of Addiction, Relapse, and Recovery?

~to look closely at my own reactions to addiction

~to understand what I will never understand

~to transform the hard things and to remember the good that was there always

~to help others through my experience, strength, and hope and through an addict’s words

~to share my story, so others who have experienced addiction in their family will  know that they are not alone and neither am I

~to get it out—and hold a book in my hands

~to show my love for my son today and into the future

~to share compassion for addicts as they journey toward healing and life