I have a confession to make: I am a little afraid to go back to The Bahamas. It’s the land of “wine for breakfast” and “every day’s a holiday,” after all. I was looking through some old photographs this weekend, and I was back in Blue Heaven – I could smell the rust and salt. […]
Category Archives: Sober Article
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May
May
Do you remember when Adam Sandler was funny and he did that movie Billy Madison? “Back to school. Back to school.To prove to Dad that I’m not a fool…” That’s me – back to school at the Recovery Coach Academy (CCAR) . Once again I am grateful to Sanford House for affording me this […]
10
May
May
You know how when you first get sober, you try to replace all the bad things you did with good things? I once had a psychiatrist tell me, “Replace alcohol with good addictions,” and to this day I resent it. I don’t know why it rubbed me the wrong way, but it did. Butterfly […]
I was in Jacksonville for the weekend. I think I am kind of an annoying house guest. Although my most exasperating qualities are always coupled with a sincere desire to help or an endearing show of excitement, so you can’t get too irritated with me. Kind of like those Sour Patch Kids Commercials. For example, I woke […]
Guana Reserve here I come! Kim says I’m really getting around these days. I guess that’s true, although I don’t feel much like the hobnobber I used to be. I am sitting here with my bags packed – heading to Jacksonville for Mother’s Day, so that’s something. I am certainly happy to be seeing the kids […]
I suppose it is simplistic to say that addiction impacts one’s quality of life. When I was pounding chardonnay, I found it hard to negotiate or associate or relate (at the risk of sounding like Jesse Jackson) to anything but the next drink. It’s as if my periphery narrowed; life was lived within the confines of a wine glass… One of […]
03
May
May
For a couple of years before I quit drinking I walked around with a continuous, low-grade hangover (when I didn’t have a top-of-the-line hangover). Which is weird, because I hate the feeling and a hangover is preventable. That salty taste in the back of the mouth, the shakes, the sensation that someone big is pressing a knuckle […]
02
May
May
I have heard that the best way to get acclimated after moving to a new city is to “overbook” all the interesting things that have been suggested for you to do. The theory is that you are so busy, you forget to be lonely and you meet new people and can always cut out the […]
This title is tricky to punctuate. Without the quotes, you might think I am giving a movie review while drunk. But I am not. I am giving a review about a move with drunkenness as the subject matter. Have you noticed how many movies involve drinking in one way or another? And that it […]
I walked to work this morning. At 5:30 AM – and I watch Criminal Minds. I probably looked like the priest in the Exorcist: a long black coat, a rosary dangling, my arms laden with heavy, black bags. As if I were going to knock on one of the doors of the big, dark houses and […]