That is God shining on me through the gnarled branches… No really, I’m being tested. For the past few days my blog has been acting up and things are disappearing that used to be there and yesterday when I went to write a post, each key stroke had a two second delay like I was […]
Category Archives: Sobriety
Just when you’re feeling all cocky about your recovery from alcoholism, a squirrel runs in front of the car and your mind screams, “You are about to run over a squirrel! YOU NEED A DRINK!” I was driving to work yesterday morning, and a squirrel did one of those things squirrels do: it […]
Peek in the back window and you’ll see my Fall 2015 wardrobe and my crab-boil pot! I just finished a blog post for Sanford House, about Sober Sex that I really like. I want to talk about what occurred to me as I wrote it. It’s no epiphany, I suppose, to conclude that any sort of intimacy […]
After being a drinker, is it ever natural to be at a dinner party without a glass of wine? I’m asking, because even though I do not crave a drink anymore, the thought of drinking flickers across my mind whenever I am in a setting where I would have been drinking, when I was drinking. […]
In the recovery game, everyone tells you to take it one day at a time, so that is what I try to do (because I always do what I am told). But do you ever get the feeling you are raging against the machine and the machine is raging back? My friend at work, who […]
… or the Bossa Nova. This tendency we have to blame it on something other than ourselves. It wasn’t me. The devil made me do it. Blame it on the a-a-a-a-alcohol. Have you ever read the lyrics to that song? Blame it on the goose Got you feeling loose Blame it on Patron Got […]
Purple sky in the morning, DOLDRUMS warning… So I have been feeling kind of down in the dumps. I think Halloween might be a trigger – all those memories of tipsy, crazy Halloween nights with the kids when they were young, and pillowcases chock full of Whoppers and Gobstoppers. When I talk about it now, Dee, […]
This photo is from a while ago in Moscow, but the guy on the left looks like a blog hawker/stalker to me… You know I get the occasional troll who says mean things for no apparent reason, right? Well my filter also catches those people in foreign countries who are trying to sell me something […]
Lauren’s photo of the all suffering Fiona dressed for Halloween… I spent the evening in the bosom of my family. Jon Jon is working in St Augustine and Laura is in town for Halloween Horror Nights. Lauren made dinner and we did what families do when they get together after being apart – a […]
CoRK Art District Jacksonville, FL I used to be a gallerist: a very good or very bad career choice for a drinker, depending on how you see the wine glass. Even with the increased visibility and reach of the internet as a means of selling art, the sexy part of the art world revolves […]