Storytellers’ Anonymous: FRESH OUT.

1 FRESH OUT I just did seven years. The look on peoples’ faces when I say that is priceless. 7 years is a long part of someone’s life. People always ask me how it feels, how did I make it through it all, what was it like, if I was…

ByOUT40November 7, 20170Comments

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4 Things to Remember While Falling in and Out of Love

Settle down? Or be wild and free? Quite the popular topic, most young adults are journeying through life and love -- often the two intertwine. Should we settle down and find love in our twenties or should we wait until we have life all figured out and we actually “find ourselves?”

ByOUT40May 17, 20170Comments

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Needles on the Playground: Frederick’s Response to the Heroin Epidemic

In 2013, I worked as a counselor in a residential dual recovery program for substance abuse and mental illness in Frederick. I remember heroin being steadily on the rise. So much so, that police officers were responding to calls more frequently — sometimes my coworkers and I made the call. Drug use had become an epidemic, gripping our community in its grasp and leaving devastation in its wake. Families were torn apart, lives were lost, and the cycle of addiction seemed unbreakable.

ByOUT40March 18, 20170Comments

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Marriage In Our 20’s

Marriage: a word that is becoming more and more taboo in today’s society and raising more debates than causal discussions. Although there may be a vast majority who may opt out on the thought of spending the rest of their lives with one person, there are still some who strongly consider such a commitment as an aspiration…

ByOUT40February 4, 20170Comments