Tag: sober

I have chosen to walk through a portal; other times, I have crossed a threshold without knowing it until I was on the other side. One of my favorite solo activities as a kid was wandering the woods off the trail to find hallows, alters, ancient wonders, and a good stick. I would get poison […]

The day was February 12th, 1994. All For Love by Bryan Adams and Sting led the charts; Ace Ventura was dominating the box office; Bill Clinton was president – the first term; Michael Crighton’s Disclosure was the top NY Times book; Green Day’s Dookie has just come out, and I was getting sober for the […]

In September 2014, I was diagnosed with stage three cancer, and by the time I was done with two major surgeries and four rounds of intense chemo, my brain was fried. I couldn’t concentrate and was full of fog if I tried. I was starting to work part-time and couldn’t do much before feeling a […]

A quarter century ago I tried to not drink. You’d think that would be super easy, or depending on who you are, really hard. I wasn’t sure that I’d stay sober that long, or if I thought I wanted to be sober, or if it was something I could do, but I knew that the […]