The mother of all drunks?

25Sep09

It’s been two months since Diane Schuler drove the wrong way on New York’s Taconic State Parkway and the resulting crash killed Schuler and seven others, including her two-year-old daughter and her two young nieces. When the news broke a few days later that Schuler’s autopsy had revealed large amounts of both alcohol and marijuana [...]

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Sobraiku #7

22Sep09

Evening companions
Once: cabernets, pinot noirs
Now: one sweet red dog

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Thank heavens I stopped drinking…

20Sep09

…before I ended up with one of these in my Christmas stocking.
File under: “Really? Really?”

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Baggage: lost, found and in need of disposal.

18Sep09

Thunderstorms. Canceled flights. Wildly incorrect flight notifications. Lost luggage.
The travel gods were against me last Thursday, as I attempted to fly to Virginia for a reunion and football weekend with my college girlfriends.
It began as I sat on the tarmac for three hours at my home airport, while the pilot waited for clearance to take [...]

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AA out of town and high-tech.

10Sep09

This afternoon, I’m heading back East to reunite with my college girlfriends for a football weekend. When I mentioned this in my home meeting this week, a friend suggested I attend an AA meeting while in Virginia. I’m embarrassed to say that I hadn’t even considered that.
In spite of the fact that football games and [...]

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