I was waxing with someone at work about the fact I never get angry any more and David walked by and said, “What about Lloyd?” I’ll admit I did bring my moving woes to work (I don’t think you are supposed to do that, but he was such an ass…). I don’t mean I don’t […]
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I was doing Pilates this morning. I’m feeling like the Tin Woodman with all this cold weather, in need of a can of oil. Anyhoo, as I was contorting on the floor of my den (I guess it’s a den – the-only-room-the-bookcase-fits-in is too obscure, and if I talk about moving the bookcase I’ll […]
I got an incredibly nice message from Rosalind last week. She likened my life to the parts of a book – a trilogy like The Hunger Games, or those books where everybody is battling moving tree stumps and armies on clouds to get the brass ring. Part 1 she says is the cliff-hanger: me tied to the tracks with […]
Get in a room with a bunch of addicts and mention the fact you used to hide a bottle of plonk behind the Drano in the utility cupboard, and everyone starts nodding like bobble-head dolls on a dashboard. It’s universal I think – this concept of hoarding your poison of choice in a “secure place”. With me […]
Where’s Waldo? Yoga class at the Lakeview Health Professional’s Weekend last year… I am often surprised and moved by a single, simple sentence. I was talking to Kristin yesterday and she was telling me about her positive experiences with yoga. I know yoga is good for many things, including centering the breathing and the mind […]
Seriously? I was thinking a blizzard was a good excuse to not write a blog post this morning. I had bigger fish to fry. There was a wall of snow behind my car where the latenight plow cleaned my parking lot and I had to do a sort of highland jig: stamping and kicking to […]
I have a Facebook friend named David. He has a pet rabbit and looks a bit like Ira Glass (a look I will admit I admire…) and he voices his opinion on the blog occasionally. I do not know how he became a “friend”, but he seems wise and although we have not spoken of […]
Original Oil (and one of my all time favorites) by Jim Draper It is rare for me to feel a lack of confidence. Not the passing fancy, I am probably a little old to wear strategically shredded jeans lack of confidence, but the kind of bone-deep uncertainty that stops you in your tracks. I […]
It’s not like I slept all day – yesterday’s walk around Reeds Lake… Should I be worried? I got my new mattress Saturday. You may be bored with this subject, but think of it like the old adage about the man who was unhappy because he didn’t have shoes until he met someone without feet (sort […]
For many years I didn’t read the 10 Warning Signs of Alcoholism, because I sort of knew what they were going to say and I was pretty sure it was going to be check, check, check. I also was in denial – Oh come on, what’s the big deal? Who doesn’t drink alone? My […]