I’m pretty excited. I was doing some research on addiction and the brain this morning; there is a strong correlation between a mutated dopamine D2 receptor and addiction and I wanted more information. On some level I like to know that my more malignant attributes (alcoholism, binge eating, hyperactivity) are the result of a variation in my pleasure […]
Monthly Archives: December 2014
I seem to find God when I am hiking. I am fortunate to hike in remote, beautiful places, often alone. It usually feels disrespectful, or dangerous to listen to music, so I hike in silence. It’s the perfect formula for contemplation – begging the questions, where did all this splendor come from and why […]
The sign says Merry Christmas Y’all – a proper use of the apostrophe, and Merriam Webster says it’s a WORD… I can’t take it anymore. It will drive me to drink. Everywhere I look there are misplaced or missing apostrophes – on placards, on Facebook mewling, on Christmas card familial updates… Examples: On […]
All of this for $38.00!!! The title may be a bit misleading, because I don’t think this post will be about drinking or not drinking at all. I shopped at the Hiawassee Dollar General yesterday and I am a changed woman, so that is what I feel compelled to crow about… First of all, everything […]
Sunrise at Blue Heaven’s tiki hut… Morning, morning. That’s how they say it in The Bahamas. You head to the yacht club for coffee at 7 AM after a long night of partying and you’re hung over and when you get there a few people are sitting at the bar nursing Bloodies and you wonder […]
It’s the holiday party season. This morning I am remembering the way I used to behave at parties when I was still a drinker. My husband called it the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde syndrome, but it was actually more of a four part social disintegration. It went like this: One: I’d arrive at a […]
Cabin Beautiful Magazine, right? The dog, the faded armchairs, the faux fur throw, the writing nook… One of the things I am grateful for since my divorce, is being able to choose the annual Christmas tree without my husband in attendance. Every year, the children and I (in seizures of celebratory joy) would find […]
Sad, stalker shoes… Help. I looked at a pair of boots on Zappos a few days ago, and now whenever I go onto Facebook, a picture of the same boots pops up on the right side of the feed. How does it know? Then yesterday I was researching something for this blog and right before […]
Lauren’s photo of a humiliated (if festive) Fiona… Remember the scene in the movie The Grinch when he cries with happiness and reaches up with a hairy green hand to feel the tears on his face with surprise and wonder? Then he calls his dog and says, “Come here Max, I LOVE YA!” When the […]
Lord willing and the crick don’t rise… Yesterday morning Lauren got up, looked out of the window at the rain and said, “I hope the creek doesn’t rise…” It sounded funny coming out of her mouth, proper English and all, but the fact is, we have a new thing to worry about. According to neighbor […]