Synonyms: homecoming; reconciliation; assembly; get-together; making up; reuniting.Yes I’m here in Flint doing all the above. With my mother. With my sister-in-law. With my long ago classmates… For the heck of it, I tried to find a word for negative reunions . It’s the way my mind works- I’ve been looking for a word for […]
I just spent the last holiday weekend of the summer really mad at alcohol. This weekend Jacksonville’s hoards camped outside my balcony on a parched stretch of sand and partied like it was 2014. There were beach volleyball tourneys, picnics, shark baiting water games and the final push to suntan before the autumn’s inevitable onset. The booze abounded. Drunken people stumbled into […]
Yesterday was quite a day for my sobriety and my psyche. Charlie Patton of the Florida Times Union wrote an article about the blog, and I was deluged with emails, texts, phone calls and Facebook comments from well-wishers and friends.* Many people said they were struggling with addiction, and wanted to know how I […]
