Onward. Day eleven. No Facebook, no news, no bullshit. I do get some chirps from another guy who has an office in the same building as me, but that’s all one-side. My side, I should admit, mostly, but unwanted. I don’t want to hear about it, whatever it is. As Read More …
The last article I wrote for this site was about being sober or getting sober. Many say that is the hardest thing they have ever done. And I agree. I am addicted. Simple statement, yes. Not so simple, though. I don’t mean addicted to alcohol or drugs. I mean, if Read More …
A woman I admire shared an interview NPR had with a doctor yesterday. NPR interviewed Dr. Lance Dodes a psychiatrist who has presumably been in practice at least twenty years. He states he has been treating addiction for that long, and he specifically talks about drinking as the addiction he Read More …
I had a dream about loss and it got me thinking of the losses, and there have been some, most self-induced, but a few were the ones the world gives us all. I was a senior in high school and my family was going through some marital turmoil and Read More …
Jul 29, 2019, 1:26 PM Another take on the border crisis. We regularly bust people, put them in jail and chastise them for “scamming.” When they steal money or scam people into joining up and paying for whatever they are selling we arrest them and put them in jail. We Read More …
All of my kids are special, each in their own way and one of the most beautifully sad events I’ve ever witnessed was my daughter, Elon, when her mom died. Elon and her sister Audrey put their lives on hold to see her mom through the last stages of Stacey’s Read More …
After a few starts after stops, I am again thinking about thinking about how to get a book done and between some covers. A couple years into this whole thing and I have already re-thought it a few times, but I still have the artwork and all the extracurricular crap Read More …
When I lived in Taiwan our house was on the main drag through the village of Tien Mou. We had a front yard, which was rare for the American housing. Along the road, was a tall hedge of greenery so the front of our house was partially hidden from the Read More …
Smoking. Yea, cigarettes. I don’t. I am not a smoker. I have been saying that since May of 2004 just a month past my fiftieth birthday. I didn’t mark the day. I know you’re supposed to keep track like a sober birthday, but I didn’t and I don’t, but by Read More …
I worked a night crew job in a grocery store when I was nineteen or so in Reno Nevada. I didn’t know anything about anything, but when the guy that hired me asked, I said I worked night crew before, so he put me on it. The store was brand Read More …