I’m not condoning it; I’m just laughing at it.

29Mar12

People can be really funny when they’re drunk. They can also be obnoxious, annoying, morose, belligerent and dangerous. Just to name a few descriptors. When I drank, any number of moods or personas could emerge. I think I typically vacillated between maudlin moper and make-out artist. Although I couldn’t tell you for sure, as I […]

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SO wrong. And yet SO funny.

16Feb11

I just “stumbled” across this short film while perusing my Twitterfeed. I’m sure there are folks who may be offended, and I’m sorry if they are. I know portraying a baby with alcohol isn’t politically correct, but damn if this video isn’t laugh-out-loud funny. I’ve been chuckling in my cube all morning – and forwarding […]

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Reason NOT to drink #7: “Personal turbulence”

15Mar10

I experienced some of what a friend calls “personal turbulence” about two weeks ago. Well, maybe it was a bit more than turbulence, but I’ll call it that for now. Immediately after it happened, I was in shock. I trembled. I felt nauseous. I felt cold. And I had an extreme attack of dry mouth. […]

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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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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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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 […]

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Reason NOT to Drink #2 – kids’ birthday parties

19May09

Back in the day, I could always muster up a reason to drink: Because something bad happened at work. Because something good happened at work. Because it was a beautiful spring/summer/fall/winter evening. Because the kids were acting up and I needed to take the edge off. Because I was at a party with strangers. Because […]

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