Nov 15, 2015
As I finished the book I had many different feelings, but the overriding feeling was of hope and uplifting peace. I loved the final pages that included Smaller Mercies and the letter to Buddybear. I read over and over the words describing your new life with Reid... read more
Nov 8, 2015
When I get to speak about safe teen driving in states other than Connecticut, people are always amazed to hear that since 2008, Connecticut has had a two-hour required safe teen driving class for parents. A teen with a learner’s permit must attend the class with one... read more
Oct 27, 2015
As advertised in prior bog posts, the Hollister family, earlier this year, donated $2,500 to the National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) as the Reid Hollister Scholarship, awarded to a student who has taken a leadership role in safer teen driving. As also... read more
Oct 23, 2015
Last month it was my privilege to attend the National Safety Council’s annual conference in Atlanta, and to be a recipient of one of NSC’s 2015 Teen Driving Safety Leadership Awards. The photo is me with NCS President, and former Chair of the National Transportation... read more
Oct 21, 2015
Below is an email received from my friend Candace Lightner, founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and a national traffic safety advocate. She has been a leader in this very worthwhile movement to get journalists and writers to make a simple but profound cultural... read more
Oct 15, 2015
Friends: I continue to receive comments from parents about His Father Still — insightful comments that go well beyond what I wrote and provide a depth of perspective that leaves me speechless. Below, with permission, but with names deleted to protect privacy, a... read more
Oct 8, 2015
Tim: From the first page, until the last, I was riveted, awestruck and enthralled. I must confess, however, that I misunderstood the purpose of the book. I thought, mistakenly, that the book was a sequel to Not So Fast, and was in the same manner a teen driving... read more
Sep 28, 2015
As I was writing His Father Still, my agent Joy and I tried to convince editors that the book’s audience would be much more than bereaved parents — that the book would appeal to all parents, because one of its central messages is to cherish the teen you... read more
Sep 26, 2015
As readers know, it makes me mad when people try to sell cars or products using a message that undermines safe teen driving. For example, last year, I joined many other traffic safety advocates taking issue with an Apple ad that showed six teens in a car, whooping it... read more
Sep 24, 2015
Friends: It has been quite a week. Last Sunday the October edition of Oprah Magazine hit the newsstands, containing Gayle King’s endorsement of His Father Still on her “Live Your Best Life” page (“May Hollister’s soul-searching be a... read more
