Category Archives: Sobriety

This is a Test

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 […]

The Skunk at the Dinner Party

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. […]

Deep-Sixing the Doldrums…

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, […]

The Queen of Halloween?

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 […]