Can you say yes to such a gift from someone you only just met?

What are the options to save your best friend from a broken home?

Deborah has an important decision to make.

Carrie, Lin, Lars and Alan all meet to celebrate New Year’s Eve in an isolated holiday house half a year after high school.

Carrie visits Lin at the psych ward.

Carrie gets tips on monster-hunting in Honduras.

Carrie has traveled all the way to Lima in Peru but has not escaped her grief. She wonders how to find the strength to go on.

Carrie must face a difficult life situation with a fellow young traveler.

In a Bolivian market, Carrie helps a lost little boy search for his mother, with some unexpected consequences.

A story about the way we often say goodbye to past relationships.

Carrie is stranded at the Santa Cruz airport in Bolivia waiting for someone who may never come

Carrie befriends a Falklands War-veteran who turns out to have a dark side.

Carrie chats with her stepbrother about choosing between war or peace, in the family and elsewhere.

Carrie gets an offer she should have refused.

A story about what it feels like when you are driving over the cliff

Going cold turkey in a lonely motel room, trying to rid herself of cocaine addiction, Carrie writes a letter to the daughter she does not yet have.

When a derelict Carrie sees three bikers assaulting an old man, she must make a profound choice for her own future.

Carrie arrives at a strange motel in the middle of nowhere. [Vignette]

On the road, Carrie stops to look for her future. [Vignette.]

In a boarding house on the Pacific Coast, Carrie meets a potential new friend whose scars may rival her own.

Carrie has finally ditched both drugs and her violent boyfriend. Is it time to get rid of her gun, too?

Carrie becomes obsessed with finding out the fate of a teenage survivor from a destructive Civil War raid.

A lonely cop is trying to figure out if he has the courage to start a relationship with the lonely waitress. Or if he even should.

On a bus-ride, Carrie befriends Anna, an elderly photographer who shows her a perspective on life.

A story about how you are always torn between priorities with an autistic child

A story about the sometimes beauty of autistic kids’ preoccupations

A story about the hope and despair that go hand in hand with the extraordinary abilities of autistic children.

A story about how mean other kids can be to siblings of autistic children. And how to fight back.

A story about the war waged every evening in households with special kids. And about what you do to hold out.

A story about how being a special needs parent messes up our friendships in ways we don’t even see coming.

A story about how it may feel to have a panic attack as a non-verbal child. And how it feels for the family.

A story about how holiday trips with autism can be both exhausting and beautiful.

Can 100,000 dollars cure life for a special needs mom? Find out in this new story – and get a free ebook, too!

How do you feel when you have to prevent your autistic child from getting too close to other children?

A story about how special needs parents sometimes try to escape their situation, and where they end up.

A story about a grandmother and her need to help her autistic grandchild. No matter how.

A story about how one man overcame his mental diagnoses, and the price he paid.

A story about two 9-year-olds discussing their future and how to believe in it.

Have you ever gotten a chance to make your dreams reality – and then discovered a nasty catch? A story.

What do you do to get some peace of mind, and who helps you? A story.

What are the lies you can’t even hide from yourself? A story.

When you feel like escalating an argument and the consequences can’t be damned. A story.

It is always so f… difficult to give yourself some credit. Unless you can give it to someone else first.

What to do when the world’s on fire? A story.

Brothers in arms do not always fight for the same thing. A story.

Can thinking of good memories outweigh the terror of impending death? David Reese is about to find out.

What angels do you call on to keep away the fear as you get older?

Do autistic children have their own language?

Can you save your future by going back to your past?

How to pick the right side in a fight between your father and your brother.

Sometimes every day is new year’s day. A very special flashback.

Carrie has started taking Taekwondo-classes but is kicked to the floor again and again.

A story about when Jon’s brother made a sacrifice that would change their lives forever

Everyday life is a bitch. And then you stand up and go another round.

Is there a pill for enduring it all?

How not to give a shit about people not giving a shit.

Let’s talk about the sex we don’t have as parents with special needs kids.

Would it be easier if we knew the reason other people hurt us?

Do you spend too much time thinking about what could have been?

There’s a difference between quitting a relationship and being over it.

Birthday gifts can’t cure loneliness, but sometimes they come close.

How can you be sure of love, when you are not sure of anything else?

Deciding what to do with the rest of your life, doesn’t get any easier over time.

The meaning of life is not necessarily the answer you need.

Fighting to remain an artist when life has overtaken you.

A single decisive moment in life can stretch on for decades.

The best excuse for doing anything you really want but always “can’t”.

Finding your true self is like giving birth. For a long time it is just … painful.

Remember those teenage friendships that would last forever? Timelinepost 2.1

Learning from a very unique teenager how to deal with your midlife crisis.

The hardest part about wanting to help people is making way for others who are more suited to the job.

Untraditional methods for dealing with high school reunions as a special needs parent.

Please, recognize what’s special about yourself – and others – before it’s too late.

The things we keep in the attic can either help or harm us.

Some things can never burn away. A story about a mother.

Three reasons why even the most powerful magic can’t change your life.

Will it be worth anything to write a memoir – if you are just an ordinary person? Timeline post 1.1

When asking for help is just more stress.

When is it a problem that you can’t feel anything?

We do what we have to do – every day.

Sometimes saving a family means doing things that’ll tear them apart.

Another suburban morning.

Why would you refuse something that could really make a difference in your life?

What’s the deal with obsessing about relationships that ended 20 years ago?!

Even if you are married with children creativity is still your friend.

Everything is politics.

The place where I lay aside my losses.

It’s never what you really need, is it?

Guns don’t kill people. But why do people then use guns?

Sometimes the dead are more alive to us than many of the living

Special needs parents don’t plan vacations – they plan sacrifices.

The older you get the faster time feels like it is running out. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Fighting the guilt as a special needs parent is a fight you have to live with, always. And you can.

Love and pain often go together, but only one of them should win.

Carrie and Jon discuss why she never cared to read about her father’s war

Ever been only 25 percent unfaithful?

How do special needs parents balance hope and realism? How about every day …

The choice you have to make for any challenge life throws at you

Those of us who think too much about death while living, have a lot of work to do.

How to get at least some energy every day when there is none

Can your words make a difference in the world?

As we approach the day of decision one thing should never be in doubt

Do you believe in serendipity?

Who makes the first move … to listen?

The more connections I have, the less I feel them

Wanting to live from your passion can be like a drug

A Christmas story based on a small but very real miracle.

Innocuous dinner-talk can be a survival strategy in a chaotic world. But for how long?

We know it is time to slow down when life slows us down.

What can always defeat the darkness?

How not to attend a funeral because you have special needs children.

What memories last half a century?

When her mother is dying, Calum and Deborah have an uneasy but hopeful reunion.

A little story about the importance of rain drops.

We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking …

Jonathan has to face survivor’s guilt in a way nobody could have foreseen …