How to Stay Happy Joyous and Free During the Holidays as a Sober Person

Because I'm an alcoholic and always will be, I would really like to be able to drink at these holiday parties I'm going to in the coming weeks. But what happens then?  I fall into the Christmas tree.  It's happened. TWICE.  Two separate years yours truly fell drunkenly into the company Christmas tree.  It's really …

On Days When Sobriety is REALLY HARD

You know the days.  They don't have to be anything monumentally terrible. They always say, "it's a broken shoe lace that will get you", meaning, it's the little things. It's not somebody dying or being diagnosed with a terrible disease necessarily that causes us to fall off the rails. I've been doing this a while …

Sunday Night Blues

I don't mind Mondays.  It's not that.  I quite like Mondays.  For I am a seeker of order and schedules and organization.  Once Monday arrives, I am usually quite content to greet the day and get back to work. However, the Sundays that come before the Mondays.  They are the pits. The Sunday Night Blues. …