The picture of isolation – the welcome mat is buried beneath the snow… Last year at this time, I was living in a remote cabin in the Georgia mountains. One of those rough hewn places, with a wall-of-fieldstone great room people from Florida find charming for a short while… I was communicating with a […]
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Sometimes the best thing to do is shut up and let the wisest person in the room speak. I have a 13 year old friend named Ellie who is one of the smartest, bravest people I know. Her dad Nick was also my friend, and the bond we shared and the runaway triumphs we achieved […]
Lauren says when I look at a group photo I only look at myself – everyone else can look like hunchbacks and I’m like, “GREAT photo!” But this is a good pic of Lauren and Kallie and me… I was watching a video of myself giving a reading to a group of recovering alcoholics and […]
I don’t think I have particularly extreme emotional highs and lows. When I was drinking I would have a door-slamming moment where I went from normal Marilyn to scary Marilyn (my husband used to call me Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), but since I’ve been sober, I am pretty even-keeled. I don’t do that thing anymore […]
Forest Gump said it best, “You never know what you’re gonna’ get…” Sometimes the cumulative effect of a single day will cause me to stop in my tracks and say aloud, “Come on – I’m trying really hard here. Give me a break…” This is almost always after a series of unfortunate events befall […]
That is God shining on me through the gnarled branches… No really, I’m being tested. For the past few days my blog has been acting up and things are disappearing that used to be there and yesterday when I went to write a post, each key stroke had a two second delay like I was […]
Just when you’re feeling all cocky about your recovery from alcoholism, a squirrel runs in front of the car and your mind screams, “You are about to run over a squirrel! YOU NEED A DRINK!” I was driving to work yesterday morning, and a squirrel did one of those things squirrels do: it […]
Peek in the back window and you’ll see my Fall 2015 wardrobe and my crab-boil pot! I just finished a blog post for Sanford House, about Sober Sex that I really like. I want to talk about what occurred to me as I wrote it. It’s no epiphany, I suppose, to conclude that any sort of intimacy […]
After being a drinker, is it ever natural to be at a dinner party without a glass of wine? I’m asking, because even though I do not crave a drink anymore, the thought of drinking flickers across my mind whenever I am in a setting where I would have been drinking, when I was drinking. […]
In the recovery game, everyone tells you to take it one day at a time, so that is what I try to do (because I always do what I am told). But do you ever get the feeling you are raging against the machine and the machine is raging back? My friend at work, who […]