Monthly Archives: July 2015

Advanced Recovery

  I was out to dinner with my friend Tall Girl on my two year sober anniversary, and she gave me a fancy, designer two year chip and said, “This is an important milestone in your recovery, because after two years of sobriety, your brain is finally coming back to normal.”   There are those […]

Throwing Money Away Drunk

  Just about the time I bought Fiona (drunk) I bought a membership to LA Fitness (drunk) and promptly forgot about it. Apparently it was a lifetime membership, because I just discovered this morning that I have been paying $32.09 per month for the past three years and I have never darkened LA Fitness’s Yoga […]

I’m Going to Rehab

The front entrance of Lakeview Health Jacksonville, Florida   No, I have not relapsed.  I am going to rehab sober, as a guest of Jacksonville’s Lakeview Health for their Professional Weekend which started last night with a dinner, introductions and a few inspirational videos. The 25 attendees are from all over the country and they […]

What is a Wet House?

  One of the positives about being open to learning new things, is that I stay current and well informed, particularly about the subjects of sobriety and recovery. One of the negatives (at least for me) is that in researching these subjects, I learn things about myself I’d rather not know – and the constant search for […]

The Psychopath Test

  I have had more than one man tell me “I do not know the meaning of love”. I resent that, but it’s like B.O. or stupidity – if you are told you offend for a particular reason, by more than one person, it is worth looking into (I suppose). And even though I dislike […]