Alcohol Free

Anxiety is a bit of a quandary.  It isn't easy to define. What is it precisely?  Hard to say--maybe sweaty hands?  Maybe very quick hear...

The single hardest thing to do when getting sober is tamping down anxiety. Anxiety. It is at the core of all good alcoholics out there. ...

Go figure!  Got this comment (below) on August 3, 2015.  Now, when did I write that blog post you might ask, especially if you were going to...

Start things.  And finish them.  Simple, right? Then go do it.  And stop talking about it.

Nostalgia seems to be based a certain lack of awareness of one's experiences, that is, pre-narrative.  Before we apply a frame, we exper...

If you've planned to give up drinking for the new year: welcome. If you've given up drinking before: welcome. If you have been d...

I hate myself.  I don’t mean it.  I mean I hate that I’m either only annoyed or frustrated, or isolated, alone, and depressed.  Perhaps it ...

Dear Alcoholics. Those of you among us who might feel a bit of relief at the tilt of a bottle.  Those of you fight off anxiety.  Those of ...

How we do or don't understand what we already understand--the circumference of our knowledge, if you will--is actually a terribly diffic...

You must self-correct when you're wrong, and you  must maintain blithe lightness of mind.  Difficult, when getting deeply into something...

If you have the right kind of confidence, doing what makes you uncomfortable can be entirely enthralling, and spur on intense creative strea...

I had a horrible classic exchange today where "fuck yous" were exchanged.  Well, it left me shaking, weak, and full of misdirected...