How to Stay Happy Joyous and Free During the Holidays as a Sober Person

Because I'm an alcoholic and always will be, I would really like to be able to drink at these holiday parties I'm going to in the coming weeks. But what happens then?  I fall into the Christmas tree.  It's happened. TWICE.  Two separate years yours truly fell drunkenly into the company Christmas tree.  It's really …

Planes, Trains and Automobiles to Arizona for Thanksgiving

Just stirring from their naps, in my parents' extra room somewhere in the desert of Arizona, my two kids are greeted by their four cousins for the first time in their little lives.  All four kids (ages 2, 4, 7 and 9) wander in as my two pop heads out of their pack n' plays …

Hand-Me-Downs are Magical

If you were to look around our home, our yard, our kids, you would find so many gifts.  So many items that were generously given to us by our families and our friends.  It's shocking really, how much of our lives are supplemented, bolstered, held up by our friends and families. That extends far beyond …