Shortly after midnight last night, this popped up on my phone: Going alcohol free is still absolutely one of the best decisions I have ever made. My second year of sobriety has been a been a beautiful one for sure, with adventures great and small. I've been on some wonderful road trips: And…
I'm in the midst of writing a LONG post - that I expect to finish after a fabulous outing tonight. It's taking quite awhile - and it's going to set some folks hair on fire. But you know what? My dreams growing up were to be a writer and to work for social justice. And…
I can't sleep tonight. The anxiety disorder that plagues me more often than I care to admit is running amok and I am having the worst time trying to get a handle on it. As y'all know, I've had the flu-y flu flu - and it's lingering. My temp continues to randomly shoot up -…
It's Thanksgiving morning and I just woke from a long-ish winter's nap (five or so hours?) and I'm sitting here next to a snoring Wonderpup and we are all wrapped up in our toastys because it's actually cold this morning (I love it when cold holidays actually are - never a sure thing in Alabama,…
Yesterday, this article was published in USA Today with all sorts of truly terrible news related to alcohol addiction, particularly in women: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2018/11/16/alcohol-deaths-emergency-room-increase-middle-aged-women-addiction-opioids/1593347002/ PLEASE take a few minutes to read it if you can. There are several things in it I feel like I must talk about, that have been heavy on my heart since…
I have so many things I want to tell y'all. . . and I will. But, first, here's the headline in my world today. . . I went to sleep - a full 24 hours of chemo coma, more or less. . . And woke up to (a lil' bit of)Â SNOW!!!! I am VERY excited…
Just this past Halloween - a couple of weeks ago - I shared this picture of myself, standing in my costume, ready to go with Sara and Henry and the rest of our bunch for a little bit: That night, if you had seen me walk, it would have been VERY slow - and I…
First, I don't know how to describe this shuffle and slide and hold on to everything-and-everybody-near-me thing I've got going on right now when I try to "walk" - but my mobility has gone to hell in a handbasket in the past couple of days (not that it was great before - but this is…
At the end of a hate-filled week, an anti-Semitic alt-right psychopath entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh last Saturday and murdered eleven people during their time of worship. He injured two other worshipers as well as four police officers. It is heartbreaking and disgusting and just unbearable. After this horrific attack occurred, the…
Since the 1992 Clinton/Gore campaign, I've been a true yellow dog Democrat. At the time, my Daddy worked every other week in Arkansas and I had him bringing me back all kinds of campaign gear, several years before I was old enough to vote. He said I'd be more conservative when I got older -…
