Raising twins and staying sober 24 hours at a time.
I don't like the "r" word. This word rehabs (another "r" word) want us to use is "relapse". I hate that word and I hate the notion that everybody relapses. They don't. They don't have to. It's not part of sobriety or recovery. It's not. Let's call it what it is, if you are sober …
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Like many of us who were coming of age in the mid-nineties, she was our voice. She was our anger that we couldn't quite focus enough to create anything purposeful except, well anger. When Jagged Little Pill came out in 1995, I had just graduated college and was living in my parents basement waiting tables …
All my life, I've had this gut instinct to hide. To hibernate. Every year when Spring Forward happens it exacerbates this feeling as now it's light out late into the evening. YIKES. More daylight equals more exposure. This is enormous pressure. It means there are more hours to do things and see people and …
Too Sober For This 