Yesterday I got in my car, all bright as a button at 6:45 and the gear shift knob was stuck in PARK. It would not budge, even though everything else was working like a car is supposed to work – radio on, lights on, heat pumping and so on. This is not something I […]
Category Archives: Sobriety
After Amber’s show on Friday, Lauren, John and I went to one of those ultra-hip, winery-as-restaurant places. We walked into a wine tasting bar with seven million bottles of wine stacked floor to thirty foot ceiling. More bottles were displayed decoratively on tables, together with wine enthusiast’s frippery and those tea towels you use to wipe […]
I was speaking to a friend of mine the other day about the years I lived in The Bahamas. He had some similar experiences in the islands and we were reminiscing about the lifestyle. At the time, we were sitting in a restaurant in Michigan with a foot of snow outside and a fresh batch drifting […]
“Butterfly Man Final Web” Mixed Media Ambler Hutchinson My friend Ambler Hutchinson is having an exhibit at Florida Mining Gallery. The opening is this Friday night, but the show runs until February 15th, so if you can – click on the link above for more information and go see it. I have done a […]
Yes I am writing this on the 12th of January. I had two resolutions for the year 2016: organize my storage spaces and exercise every day. How hard is that? I have not exercised for four days now, and I lost my storage room keys during the holidays and had to have the locksmith […]
After my experience with the cab driver, serial killer with the poopy pants, I bought a Powerball ticket. I was at the Gate Station at 5 a.m. on Saturday buying cat food (don’t ask), and since the cab driver was actually a nice man with what I am now assuming was a melted Cadbury Bar on […]
In my drinking days in The Bahamas I was fearless. I’d head out into open water with the captain, on a boat without any tracking devices (there was a satellite dish and a bunch of fancy looking controls, but nobody knew how to work them). We’d hop from island to island in a place so remote […]
Yes. (But they might not say anything about it to your face). I get a variation on this question a lot. Sometimes folks will ask, “How should I tell my family I have a drinking problem?” I usually answer, “They already know.” There’s a weird thing that happens in families when one of the members has […]
When Lauren was little, we were in a store and there were some of those clever, kitchen wreaths made of corks hanging on display – several hundred corks in each wreath. She said quite loudly, “I’ll bet you could get enough corks for a wreath in a week, Mommy.” Out of the mouths of babes. […]
One of my New Year’s resolutions (I only have two and the other is to exercise every day) was to organize my storage spaces and get rid of the things I have been housing since my move from Bristol Place five years ago. For example, the INDO Board I used to balance on in […]