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 …

Unapologetic Gratitude

The kind of gratitude so big you can feel it almost swallow you whole into a cavernous darkness only to shoot you back out into the light.  It almost hurts.  It almost feels as though you will crumble.  From gratitude.  After years of practice, it's present at all times.  Even when the outlook is bleak …

Not the most perfect house on the block

We landed in a vat of chocolate with this new house.  I mean, sure it flooded a month after we moved in and we had to replace half the roof already, but who doesn't have some immediate problems when they move in, am I right? We've fixed the problems and know what we are dealing …