Sometimes I think HUMOROUS EX-BOOZER will be my epitaph. This is a sobriety blog, and my primary focus is helping those who suffer from alcohol addiction, but I have started thinking lately about the other things I am. The other things I do. I am not quite as consumed by NOT DRINKING as I was six months […]
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In January, I went to an eight day writer’s workshop called “Writer’s in Paradise.” It took place at Eckerd College and is quite prestigious I am told, with a faculty made up of famous writers* and a student body of gold star seeking, literary smarty pants. I submitted twenty-five pages of Waking Up the Ghost as a writing […]
Why do people drink? I was sitting in Lauren’s bed (shaking things up round here…), with Fiona snoring at my feet and contemplating this important question at 5 AM. The first thing that popped to my mind when this burning inquiry woke me was – advertising. People drink because they are influenced. So I went to the […]
You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret – ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ARE… (The date of this post is August 2014 – in Recovery Years that’s a long time to get smarter… 12/2016 M) The above is a quote I would have related to when I was drinking. I courted crazies like it […]
Fiona’s typical state of being… I bought Fiona online from a breeder in Oklahoma when I was drunk. For the first few months of her life, I was at my lowest point – drinking three bottles of wine a day and battling a mysterious bacterial infection that caused my joints to swell painfully. Walking her […]
I’m sick of worrying about myself. I’m sick of worrying about money and success and whether the sober decisions I am making about my future (way too open ended at this stage of my life) are the RIGHT decisions. I’m sick of the self-absorbed, self-analytical, self-satisfaction of being an alcoholic or a recovering alcoholic. […]
So, I was driving home from helping Jon Jon and Kallie move, and I pulled into a gas station on San Pablo to fill the tank. As I was finishing and preparing to leave (credit card back in wallet, road trip trash thrown away), one of those huge SUV’s Ponte Vedra women drive to […]
With Susan, Dee and Kim I’ll admit yesterday was a bit of an anticlimax. I felt genuinely weird all day – a feeling I couldn’t pinpoint or shake until it hit me that – everything has changed and nothing has changed. I’m sounding a bit like Yoda again, but as Dee put it, “Whatever it […]
Today is my one year sober anniversary. It feels like a big deal to me, but oftentimes when I tell someone I’m a year sober*, they feel the need to say they know someone who’s been alcohol-free for like 37 years. As if in the grand scheme of boozy achievements, a year is small potatoes – I should […]
…was one of Lauren’s favorite stories when she was a little girl. Don’t ask. Other children liked Green Eggs and Ham or if they were feeling particularly racy, Where the Wild Things Are; my child would curl up with her binky and her beat up, stuffed Little Beethoven (still has them), and ask me […]