That is not White Zin in front of me – I am the DESIGNATED DRIVER, people… With precious cargo Laura and Lauren. It is TPC week here in Jacksonville, and I am the DD for Lauren and Laura. This is a title and responsibility no one would have thought to give me two years ago. […]
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Most people who used to drink and don’t drink anymore, have the anniversary of their sobriety imprinted on their memory like one of those glow-in-the dark club stamps an unsmiling bouncer puts on the back of your hand. Ever wake up and read the one word name, like LUSH or CRUSH on your person and […]
Based on this drawing, I favor the side of the brain with all the pretty colors! You hear people speak of right brain and left brain dominance… I am of the brain dominance that doesn’t remember the side of the brain in which I am dominant. I think that makes me thick-sculled, or forgetful or […]
I always choose “Rock” When I was little, my brother and I did the classic “rough housing” thing in the back seat of the car, just far enough out of reach that my dad’s swinging arm could not smack us. We had a game (which now that I think about it, was kind of […]
“At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun…” Rudyard Kipling from The Dawn Wind Once, I was flying to Russia in the middle of the night and I woke with that dry-mouthed start you […]
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again“ Actually, I didn’t write that. And I went to my old house in Marsh Landing Country Club, and it wasn’t a dream, and it was not a burnt wreckage, and there wasn’t a ghost of the crazy wife in the attic or a blinded ex-lover wandering in the ruins. Although, with the […]
“Gluttony” by Pieter Breugel the Elder Let’s talk about gluttony… It was pretty early into my sobriety, that I realized alcoholics are gluttons. I can tell you that I still grapple with the bottomlessness of my desires. (Speaking of puking, doesn’t that sound like it belongs in a bodice-ripper romance novel?) ************** Thorn Bartleby […]
A new day on the Intracoastal Waterway… Last night I fell asleep listening to this dude named Brian Tracy school me on YouTube, about “The 7 Qualities of Success.” It was like those 1950’s movies where the hero goes to sleep with big earphones plugged into a boxy reel to reel tape player and wakes […]
Remember the old Lays Potato Chip commercial – Bet you can’t eat just one? Change “eat” to “drink” and it could be a great commercial for a rehab center, or a moderation management organization. I think the question arises in the dark mind of every recovering alcoholic at least once, “As soon as I […]
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Just beyond the wall and over the first mountain, you will find a pot of gold, happiness and sobriety… In the year 2000, I was rocketing through the air on the way to Ireland with my family. We were configured in twos: My husband and son in the seats in front, my daughter and […]