I saw Kevin from Recovery Allies yesterday. I went to the impressive, Equine Coaching ranch called One Neigh at a Time, and after second guessing Siri and David’s hand drawn map and getting lost (hey Siri, I know I didn’t turn where you told me to turn before, but am I supposed to be on a one […]
Kim sent me an aphorism this weekend. It was about the kind of friend I am – a cowgirl, blasting through a door with a shovel and a plan. I am that kind of friend and I have always been good in an emergency. The adage also mentions whiskey and the fact that some friends […]
Life is long when you discover you are addicted to drugs or alcohol at a young age. Imagine being in rehab before you are legal. Or celebrating your 21st birthday in a treatment center? Or knowing that if you go out with your college friends to party, you’ll be the one to walk out […]
I made up that number. But I’ve had a few meltdowns over the past three years. It seems that with each new season of my sobriety, I go great guns and then (as guns are want to do) I detonate and fizzle and as Dee’s grandma used to say, “take to my bed”. The […]
Jim says he’s been in Italy since May and all he can think about is kayaking on the Suwannee. I had my first kayaking experience last weekend and I understand what he means. I can’t stop thinking about it myself. We were staying at my friend Ross’s cabin and he and I went out on the […]
I have so much to write about, I don’t know where to begin. There’s kayaking, and more on my first sober boat trip, and reconnecting in a big way with old friends, and my new level of age-defying fitness, and the Pine River, and work, and Michigan hiking trails, and equine recovery coaching, and the belly […]
I didn’t realize it was the first time I had been on a boat since I’ve been sober, until I was on a boat looking at the big white cooler that, on most watercraft, holds cold beer and wine… It was the first time in three years I was going for a boat ride that wasn’t a […]
