Everything is terrible! Here is some good stuff to counter balance the horrors

I watched Patton Oswalt's new stand up recently.  It was really good.  I cried and laughed and shook my head and marveled at how he can turn his pain and laughter through pain into something we can all relate to. Among his many gems he did a bit about "I wonder how many AA chips …

Sobriety Sweet 16

Maybe it's being smack in the middle of the fuck-it-forties, maybe it's waking up every single morning and having my heart in my throat as to what horrendous things have happened as we slept, but this sobriety sweet 16 seems more fragile now than ever. I remember very little about actually being 16.  I remember …

Hope is the Very Essence of Strength

I heard someone say today that hope is for the weak. I am not weak. You are not weak. Hope is wanting to believe even when you've been proven wrong over and over and over. Hope is wishing that people ultimately do what is kind, what is good, what is right. Even when they continue …