I’m trying to be positive, but the photo was taken at Christmas – I haven’t seen blue sky in six days… I feel better today. Thank you for all the comments and emails and calls. I am not going to jump. Actually when you live on a mountaintop you can’t jump – you’d have […]
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I particularly like the through-the-screen photo – like it’s taken from within an insane asylum… Okay, this morning I’m INSIDE a cloud. And I’m not flying through the air to someplace exotic or warm. I opened the door to let Fiona go to the bathroom and she peeked out, turned around and went back to bed. […]
SUNRISE in the Georgia mountains in January… No wonder I’m depressed… This blog started out as a daily journal to keep myself honest about my problems with drinking. I really didn’t think about the byproduct – helping others – until I started getting emails and comment from those who were suffering. I now have […]
People write to me regularly and make suggestions for blog topics. I post almost every day, and although I am positively fecund on the topic of alcoholism, I do stare at the screen occasionally with a blank mind, so I am grateful… Which brings me to today’s topic – thanks Richard, now I’m worried I’m […]
Only for YOU would I get out of the car, take off my gloves and get this shot of ICE ON THE (fast moving) CREEK. Yikes. It’s 7 degrees in Georgia and I don’t drink. It got me thinking about whether climate is a trigger for alcohol consumption. There’s not a lot to […]
That’s me in school, quietly despising the smarty-pants at my table who is trying to explain an indecipherable GRAPH… I’d like to stab him in the eyes with one of those sharp number 2 pencils… You’re not supposed to call them “disabilities” anymore. I’m always the last person to get the memo on changes […]
The only greenery in the Georgia woods in winter – the snarl at the top of Hall Creek Falls… I think I talk about hiking a lot. It’s one of the things I love to do and it makes sense to talk about it on a sobriety blog because it is rather hard to […]
…is not like taking a break from a relationship. When someone tells you they “want to take a break” from a relationship it means they want to break up but they’re scared to tell you. When someone says they are “taking a break from alcohol” it means just that – they are not drinking for […]
2014 accomplishment – hike to Hall Creek Falls…I’m taking the picture, but I climbed to the top – all the fabulous pictures Jon Jon took of me are sideways or upside down… Don’t worry. I know it’s the second of January. There has been no bender – no time warp. I am firmly in […]
This is a good party game. The list comes from The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. It is not as preachy as the old test with questions like “Do you ever drink alone?” and “Do you ever think about drinking in the morning?” Is it just me or is that like asking “Do you ever […]