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 …

That is the Dumbest Thing I’ve Seen All Day

Sometimes I think I might just be too stupid to live.  But there I go "thinking" again.  I am a bright woman.  I have had experiences and boy, have I learned from them.  I went to college.  I even GRADUATED college.  With a theatre degree, but still.  I graduated.  Not that school means you're smart, …