I have a profound respect for those who manage to get sober this time of the year. The near impossible requirements of early sobriety are amplified at holidays. This was the time of year most of us seemed to fit in—finally, everyone else was drinking excessively too. We …
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Desperation … That crumbling moment when I will say or do anything, so as not to receive the natural, yet now unacceptable, consequences. It is the unveiled realization that I have set my standards well below my own tolerance. In the guise of this awareness I am willing …
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frag•ment n. a part broken off or detached, isolated, unfinished, or incomplete part origin: 1530s, from L. fragmentum “ a fragment, remnant.” From the root of frangere “to break” (fraction) ¹ Fractions can be a difficult concept for kids to learn. How can there be less than a whole? …
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Everything. I spent most of my years searching for love. It was those few missing pieces from the 1000 piece puzzle. I army crawled the carpet, sifted the vacuum bag—twice. The puzzle was eventually moved back to the box. I never enjoyed the 997 correctly placed pieces nor …
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What if I had it all wrong, but was confident I had it all right? What if I thought the process of life was to add, but realized later the process was to multiply? I spent my life professing that 5 + 5 was 10, only to discover …
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It spoke to me one thousand times. It patiently awaited my arrival. There was nothing I could do to shut it down. Nothing I could do to kill it. It was forever knocking at the entry way of my mind, my heart. I tried my best to slam …
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We are tethered: the addict and the one-who-loves-the-addict. We don’t experience our life separate from those we love. Just because we aren’t in the same room doesn’t mean our actions aren’t detrimental. We each tug the other through our action—or lack of. What we do matters—for both of …
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