2 YEARS SUGAR FREE
2 YEARS SUGAR FREE (A twist on “one year, no beer”) This month marks 2 years no sugar for me I’ve had numerous substitutes for beer since...
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- Aug 12, 2022
- 5 min
HAIR-STORY
I have short hair. It’s by default. Because it’s thin, fine, and wispy and grows at a snail’s pace I have yearned for long hair since I...
- Jun 29, 2022
- 5 min
Goodbye
I changed my hair for you. I started growing it out, and I quit dying it funky colors 👩🎤 because you didn’t like it short and pink. I...
- May 30, 2022
- 2 min
THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE HUMAN
My hair is short. I don’t shampoo it. I don’t always wear a bra. I usually keep my nails cut short. I like wearing black eyeliner. I will...
- May 18, 2022
- 5 min
MY REBIRTH DAY
I want to share something about myself you may or may not know: I am a recovered alcoholic and drug addict. And I have 2 sobriety dates....
- May 8, 2022
- 1 min
I AM STILL BEAUTIFUL.
Even though I’m older now. Almost 46. I’m still beautiful- Even if I don’t get the same external validation I did in my youth. I’m still...
- Feb 15, 2022
- 2 min
My Valentine’s gift to me💖
For Valentine’s, I blocked him 🚫 And in doing so, I chose myself👩❤️👩 I blocked him- not out of spite or malice- but out of...
- Jan 12, 2022
- 5 min
HITTING ROCK BOTTOM
I got pregnant on New Years Eve, 1998. I was drunk. I still remember cheering NINETEEN NINETY-NINE like a madwoman outside the bar as...
- Jan 3, 2022
- 4 min
My Nightmare before Xmas that turned into a Miracle
Four days before Christmas 2020, my job of almost 13 years gave me shocking news: that if I did not move back to the US from overseas...
- Dec 6, 2021
- 3 min
HEARTBREAK
My heart hurts. 💔 It’s an agonizing feeling that is so familiar, yet still so uncomfortable. It comes from loss of connection with...
- Nov 25, 2021
- 4 min
Diary of a Dry Drunk
HOPE IS HERE. Prayers do get answered. If you need hope that you can recover – please read my “Diary of a Dry Drunk” below, written in...
- Nov 12, 2021
- 15 min
Last Chance
It was my senior year of high school, two Thursdays before Thanksgiving. I was slouched in the rear bucket seat of my mother’s red...
- Sep 17, 2021
- 3 min
A Twist on “One Year, No Beer”
1 YEAR NO SUGAR, 20 YEARS NO CIGARETTES This month marks 20 years no smokes, and 1 year no sugar for me🤩 My foto was taken last weekend...
- Aug 25, 2021
- 4 min
TINDER DATE Part 2 – The rest of the story
6 months ago I met a guy from Tinder who gave me some back-handed compliments about my looks and my age. (See Tinder Part 1 here –...
- Aug 13, 2021
- 3 min
Digital Detox
I’m taking a few days away from screens. Here’s why. I had a moment of clarity last week when I tried to read a book. A book I’m really...
- Jul 15, 2021
- 7 min
The Power of Secrets and Lies
July 15, 1998, is twenty-three years ago today. Almost half my life has gone by since then. Still, I remember it every year. Here’s why....
- May 19, 2021
- 7 min
My Rebirth-day
A year ago today I was in an AA Big Book study with my sponsor. We were reading page 31 of the book. I read the sentence “Through every...
- May 6, 2021
- 6 min
150 Amends
I’m dying. We all are. Yet most of us live under the illusion that we’re going to live forever, caught up in the day-to-day grind of...
- Apr 17, 2021
- 7 min
Trust Fall
On December 21, 2020, at 12 midnight, my job of 12 1/2 years gave me shocking news: that if I did not move back to the US from overseas...
- May 22, 2020
- 8 min
Reset.
I have spent the majority of my life in the meeting rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous. Since I was first sent to rehab at 17, Twelve Step...
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