September was Recovery Month and per usual, I am a day late (30 days late) and a dollar short to comment. I guess, like Jon Jon’s first grade teacher used to say on Father’s Day (“Every day is Father’s Day”), I’m of the mind that every day is Recovery Day and every month Recovery Month. I wanted […]
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Guana Reserve Beach – the day before the blood moon… Evie says this photo looks like half a heart. I didn’t see it until Ellie told me, and now it’s all I can see. It’s ironic I guess that when everyone else was anticipating the super-moon and looking up to the heavens, I was […]
Where’s Mare? You can tell we’re professionals – we’re wearing name tags on lanyards… on the balcony/running track in Lakeview’s newly renovated gym. Lakeview Health In July, I was invited by Jacksonville’s Lakeview Health to attend their “Professional’s Weekend”. Twenty-five addiction specialists from around the country visited Lakeview’s addiction treatment center to tour their newly renovated […]
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Someone asked me the other day if I was wearing hair extensions, because my hair “looked so thick”. It’s funny, because for so many years I have hated my thin hair, and recently it has become kind of amazing. I actually did wear hair extensions during The Bahamas years. I thought they looked glamorous at the time. Based on a quick […]
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“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart.” ― Kazuo […]
From Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland – He’s always LATE… I woke up this morning with nothing to say. Have you ever had that happen to you? Your noggin feels swollen: like it’s padded with black cotton wool, nothing in there but fluff. So I Googled “What are all the anonymous groups” and suddenly I’m full […]
Has Fitbit become a verb yet? Everyone tells me not to get a Fitbit. They say I will obsess about how many steps I have taken each day. Not the way most people randomly check their wrists for progress toward 10,000 steps, but every few minutes – with a more zealous furrow to my brow. Waking in the […]
I can’t decide whether I’m sick or depressed. I spent all day in bed Wednesday, watching a show called “Longmire” on Netflix. Yes, I binge watch TV. Longmire is this grizzled cowboy sheriff, with what appears to be an unrequited yen for his female deputy and a thirst for Rainier Beer. All the important […]
Yikes – I had a drinking dream! Whoa. I have to hurry to get this down. And this is not going to be some snippet of a pretty memory. Because I had a drinking dream last night. I was at a dinner party with a bunch of people and everyone was pouring drinks and I […]
I feel like so many of my posts begin with a photograph of Guana Reserve. I have walked that stretch of deserted beach in every possible state of mind: scalding and still; with a cold facing wind; choppy and foggy; foreshadowing a black rain; and on those days when everything is so perfect it feels […]