Isn’t it inviting? …or experiencing sobriety but not recovery, because I’ll be damned if I didn’t get hit hard with a craving for alcohol yesterday. What is it about airports? I almost didn’t write about this, because it is repulsive to me. I have not had a drink for fifteen months and I would like to […]
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Is it just me or are AA meetings not always that easy to find? This is not a rhetorical question. I’m in Flint looking for a meeting and when I Googled AA meetings Flint Michigan, I got a hodgepodge of websites touting services to problem drinkers and a glut of options so varied and obtuse I started to […]
I have a friend named Mark who lives in Michigan. I’m thinking of him this morning. I was feeling resentful about not being able to drink yesterday, and it’s all his fault. Mark is one of those people who does really fun, outrageous drinking activities and then goes back to his important job with great stories to […]
Recovering alcoholics talk about the evils of boozing all the time: the injurious falls; the broken relationships; the missed opportunities; the emotional toll. We never seem to talk about the cost of drinking. I’m talking about the actual amount of money it takes to be a lush. When I was a drinker, I put […]
I am totally unqualified to write the post I’m about to write. But I just listened to a thought provoking podcast from the guys at Since Right Now and I’m thinking this morning (till my thinker gets sore) about God and His role in my recovery from alcoholism. http://www.sincerightnow.com/pdcst/ I’m also tiptoeing around WORDS this morning because […]
Okay class, is this a depiction of someone who is whelmed or OVERWHELMED? I’m so excited. I discovered today that there is such a thing as being whelmed – without the “over”. It means engulfed. And one can be gruntled too, without the “dis”. It means satisfied. Why didn’t I know this? And I was talking […]
Today is my birthday. As the old dirge says, “I’m another day older and a’ deeper in debt…” I Googled “birthday” this morning, because I love to read the condescending descriptions for those iconic things we should just know, like “ponies” or “water”. Wikipedia explains: A birthday is a day that comes once a year when […]
I posted a picture of The River Rest Cemetery a few days ago; it was featured in an article about Flint’s Most Haunted Places, because a J Seward Johnson creation called Crack the Whip is supposed to kill you (or worse) if you put your foot in the sculpture’s whimsical, mislaid child’s sandal. If you read this blog regularly, […]
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