But Does Santa Believe in You?

After receiving an email last night from a reader who was getting flack on her page for posting pictures of her Elf on the Shelf - she expressed how for her kids, belief in magical occurrences was wondrous and she couldn't understand why people would knock that on her page and hadn't I written about belief before …

Hoping for Just One More Day Sober

Well here we are.  12 years sober today and sometimes feeling exactly as unsure and scared as I did That First Year. I'm going to pause here and STRONGLY recommend reading that last link right there.  It tells the story of what happened when I first got sober that so many of you ask me …

Do Not Kill Yourself

This week - this day -  is loaded. For so many, it's remembering what happened in our country on September 11, 2001. Someone asked me recently where I was on that day. I always gulp when the subject comes up because the truth is, I don't remember a lot of it.  I thought it was …