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Charlene Briner

Charlene Briner

Thoughts on love and loss, holiday edition

Holidays are complicated when you live with ambiguous loss. In my case, it can be hard to get in the holiday spirit when my son is back in…

Nov 26, 2018

Thoughts on love and loss, holiday edition

Nov 26, 2018

Charlene Briner

Detours, Dead Ends & Roads Re-traveled

There’s no straight road to redemption. There’s only a twisty, bumpy, sometimes unpredictable road with long boring stretches, random dead…

Jun 4, 2018

Detours, Dead Ends & Roads Re-traveled

Jun 4, 2018

Charlene Briner

Once more again, with feeling

Not a day goes by that someone doesn’t ask me about my son Nick. When last I posted an update to the continuing saga of my son’s struggles…

Sep 3, 2017

Once more again, with feeling

Sep 3, 2017

Charlene Briner

Back on the Roller Coaster

Three weeks ago, on the day after Mother’s Day, I got a call telling me my son Nick had been picked up by the authorities in a small town a…

Jun 9, 2017

Back on the Roller Coaster

Jun 9, 2017

Charlene Briner

What I Know

“It’s always our choice what attitudinal ground to stand on: the emotional quicksand of negative thinking, or the airstrip of spiritual…

May 4, 2017

What I Know

May 4, 2017

Charlene Briner

If I Never See My Son Again

I’m not typically someone who finds the silver lining right away. Mostly, when I’m deep in the morass and the muck, I sweat and struggle…

Apr 13, 2017

If I Never See My Son Again

Apr 13, 2017

Charlene Briner

Living in the In-Between

When I became a mother more than two decades ago, I never thought I would have to deal with the prospect of having a fugitive for a son.

Feb 21, 2017

Living in the In-Between

Feb 21, 2017

Charlene Briner

We Always Knew This Wouldn’t Be Easy

Re-entering society after prison is, even in the best of circumstances, an uphill climb, a grueling test of human perseverance. Every day…

Feb 6, 2017

Feb 6, 2017

Charlene Briner

Holidays 4.0

Nothing illustrates the highs and lows of my motherhood journey than the three-month stretch between late October and mid-January. Since…

Dec 22, 2016

Holidays 4.0

Dec 22, 2016

Charlene Briner

We’re In This Together, On Our Own

Mothering adult sons has not led me down a straight path. Instead, the road is circular and winding, full of competing, contrary, sometimes…

Oct 28, 2016

We’re In This Together, On Our Own

Oct 28, 2016

Charlene Briner

Charlene Briner

Mother. Storyteller. Believer in second chances. Former deputy commish, interim ED, occasional flack and recovering politico.

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