Merimee MoffittThe author explores writing as therapy, making art out of grief and obsessive tendencies. During the years spent shaping Notes on Serenity, she also attended 12-step programs and professional lectures on addiction illness. Her writing is informed notonly by journalists and medical caregivers, but also by the works other parents have produced in order to share, to give hope, and to fight the silence and shame of addiction illness. She feels her book on addiction is important; her compassionate voice speaks up and out for addicts and their loved ones. Read More Read Less