A mosaic at ArtPrize made of broken plates. Breaking the Mental Health Stigma While I was at Sanford House, the residents and I painted desert plates with all the bad things we wanted to banish from our lives forever (in my case fear, white wine, insecurity, addiction, self-sabotage and Raisinets – I sort of needed a dinner plate…), and then we […]
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I have a young friend named Ellie. She and I have been communicating through emails and texts and blog comments for several months now and last night she posed the age old question, “If a tree falls in the woods does it make a sound?” Now this is a smart girl, so she was […]
Nothing like scrounged wood leeks and pinecones to satisfy… So, after two months of eating lettuce and berries, like a super model (or a foraging freegan), I got to Dee’s last night and said the fatal words, “I feel like being bad.” It’s like somebody opens a floodgate. In my old drinking days, those five […]
There is something gorgeous about a cornfield that’s gone to seed; the useless stalks crowded together in steadfast rows against a pale blue sky. I was out walking early yesterday morning and I came upon a dirt road that ran between two fields: one fallow, mounds of dull-brown dirt, the other a dry rustle of leaves before they are […]
I spent last Thursday, Friday and Saturday with some of the smartest, funniest and most impassioned addiction/recovery professionals I have ever met. But probably my favorite line during the three days (or at least the one that makes me smile the most as I recall) was, “Can we talk about something else besides recovery? […]
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OCD is Not Just Washing Your Hands A LOT… I’ll admit I’m guilty of it – I talk about my penchant for origami toilet paper points as being “Sooo OCD”. I don’t like closed doors, or trash in bathroom trash cans, and if I’m left alone for too long I count the ceiling […]
This is Sanford House. I’m SERIOUS. I might not ever leave… Sanford House Drug and Alcohol Rehab and Recovery Center… I’m very excited to be heading to Michigan today as a guest of the folks at the gorgeous Sanford House. Sanford House is a drug and alcohol rehab and recovery center for women, located in Grand […]
I was supposed to have dinner with Nick on Saturday night, but he was unavoidably detained… Kim and I went anyway, as a tribute and because he would have wanted me to enjoy his largess one more time. When we arrived, Kim got flustered, because the hostess said, “He’s expecting you. There’s something at […]
From a set of AA Approved comic strips 1968 – 1974 – awesome right? I know you have spoken about AA; however, I wonder if maybe you could share your experience. I have found that for me the only way I have been able to remain sober, is through AA. I realize that your […]
Words Have Power I have found my niche. After years of people looking at me and saying, “You’d be great in sales,” I’ve finally convinced everyone I am best at doing research and writing about it. I love correcting other people’s grammar; finding inconsistencies in long standing, scholarly reference materials; and educating myself about obscure subjects […]