August 19 – September 7, 2015 – the police are going to crack down on drunk drivers like, well, like super-vigilant police on drunk drivers. And if this promotional photograph is any indication of their tactics, they plan to camouflage their squad cars; painting them like those people who work during Halloween Horror Nights at Universal […]
Category Archives: Sobriety
I was driving Lauren and Kristin to a concert last night in St Augustine. It was an island, reggae, heart of the summer line up including Sublime and Rebolution, bands we always listened to in The Bahamas over dinners of imported steaks, hush-your-mouth-crawfish and cases of wine. With a cannabis aperitif. The opening act […]
“On the Wagon” – a state of mind AND a place to live! I got a comment from Kevin yesterday, who uses cannabis to stay “sober” from alcohol. He was responding to a post I wrote quite a while ago, called Recovering Alcoholics Smoking Pot, What? which is exciting in itself, because it means he […]
It sounds like the title for a children’s book, doesn’t it? In case you were on your chair edges, wondering how I am after yesterday’s gloom-o-rama, I am fine. Nothing like the grouper special at Bistro Aix and a good night’s sleep to set a person right. I think I discount the role of tiredness in […]
The “wading pond” behind my office. I’d throw myself in dramatically, but eeeuuuu… I am tired. And I feel muddy, my head as bulky as a wool turtleneck. I have so little energy I might be considered slothful, if someone were considering. Maybe I’m coming down with something. I hope so, because otherwise I […]
Now THIS is a party… Lauren’s watching Breaking Bad from scratch on Netflix. I was at her house for lunch yesterday and I watched an episode in the middle of Season Four with her. I am an irritating person to watch any television show with, or any movie or stage play, but I am particularly […]
The ultimate in slack-doggery – Fiona in her favorite position… I got this email message from my buddy Mark a couple of days ago: No “Ghost” lately? No one likes a slack dog. MM Short but sweet, right? I have been kind of tired recently, and I have been slacking off a bit […]
Giving Up the Ghost: to die; to stop working; to stop trying to do something because you know it will not succeed. A friend of mine says he’s “done with sobriety”. He says he wants another option, a different plan, and that sobriety has brought him nothing but problems. He says when he was drinking he had less […]
I’m not tired of being sober. I am just tired. I was talking to Lisa last night over some sort of fried green tomato with indefinable bits of deliciousness on top at Medure, and I said to her, “When I was drinking I used to have more frenetic energy – sweeping the front porch at […]
I was out to dinner with my friend Tall Girl on my two year sober anniversary, and she gave me a fancy, designer two year chip and said, “This is an important milestone in your recovery, because after two years of sobriety, your brain is finally coming back to normal.” There are those […]