Just when you’re feeling all cocky about your recovery from alcoholism, a squirrel runs in front of the car and your mind screams, “You are about to run over a squirrel! YOU NEED A DRINK!” I was driving to work yesterday morning, and a squirrel did one of those things squirrels do: it […]
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Peek in the back window and you’ll see my Fall 2015 wardrobe and my crab-boil pot! I just finished a blog post for Sanford House, about Sober Sex that I really like. I want to talk about what occurred to me as I wrote it. It’s no epiphany, I suppose, to conclude that any sort of intimacy […]
After being a drinker, is it ever natural to be at a dinner party without a glass of wine? I’m asking, because even though I do not crave a drink anymore, the thought of drinking flickers across my mind whenever I am in a setting where I would have been drinking, when I was drinking. […]
In the recovery game, everyone tells you to take it one day at a time, so that is what I try to do (because I always do what I am told). But do you ever get the feeling you are raging against the machine and the machine is raging back? My friend at work, who […]
That’s me on the left – I’m like, “I am NOT going to eat 4,000 calories of candy in one sitting – burn the head after I cut it off!!!” and the other guy is like, “Wait. Did you say 4,000 calories?” and I’m like “Don’t worry – I took Correctol” and he’s like, “Yuck…” […]