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It’s what we say about sobriety in the Alcoholics Anonymous program: “You’ve got to give it away to keep it.”
Last month, as I was nearing my one-year anniversary of being sober, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to give away my sobriety. That is, I was able to share my strength, hope and [...]


B.’s father died early yesterday morning.
He’d been in a nursing home for about two years, landing there after a long and – from what I’d heard – often destructive battle with alcoholism and its attendant illnesses.
He died in his sleep, and I think B. had made his peace with him a while back, so I [...]


Not that long ago, I saw a hummingbird pause.
It wasn’t the one in my picture above, but rather one out in my yard that I didn’t capture with my camera. The tiny bird buzzed over to a tree branch, alighted, and then…stopped. It sat there for at least a minute, perfectly still.
I had never seen [...]


These days if you’re a writer who wants to get published, here’s one surefire way: choose an activity (the more off-the-wall, the better) and do it for one whole year. Write a blog about it, and then turn that blog into a book — maybe even into a movie.
Recently there’s been a spate of writers [...]


My last drunk.

13Oct09

A little more than a year ago, I got drunk for the last time.
I didn’t know it was going to be the last time – not that it would have made any difference. I mean, I don’t think I would have drank more or in a different manner or have chosen a different venue or [...]