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3 Years Sugar Free🎉
This month marks 3 years of living a sugar-free life, a journey filled with ups and downs, but one that has brought tons of growth and...
Sep 18, 20233 min read


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...
Sep 29, 20222 min read


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...
Aug 12, 20225 min read


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...
Jun 29, 20225 min read


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 30, 20222 min read


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 18, 20225 min read


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...
May 8, 20221 min read


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...
Feb 15, 20222 min read


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 12, 20225 min read


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...
Jan 3, 20224 min read


HEARTBREAK
My heart hurts. 💔 It’s an agonizing feeling that is so familiar, yet still so uncomfortable. It comes from loss of connection with...
Dec 6, 20213 min read


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 25, 20214 min read


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...
Nov 12, 202115 min read


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...
Sep 17, 20213 min read


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 25, 20214 min read


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...
Aug 13, 20213 min read


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....
Jul 15, 20217 min read


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 19, 20217 min read


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...
May 6, 20216 min read


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...
Apr 17, 20217 min read
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