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Is Stress Threatening Your Recovery?

Face it: life can be really stressful at times.  Maybe you work for a company that has been laying people off and you wonder when the ax is going to come down on you. Or you have a mortgage payment that you just barely make, so if those medical bills are going to be as [...]

Ice Cream!

So I bought myself an ice cream maker – a pretty nice one that was on sale on Amazon.  So this weekend I’m experimenting with low-carb recipes by trying different combinations of sweeteners etc.  I love sweets – as I think most recovering alcoholics do. They can be my downfall on any attempt to be [...]

Off for the Holidays

I’m traveling to my hometown in Florida for the holidays. It’s always a bit odd to go from Los Angeles to Tampa Bay for Christmas. At least one place you are during the holidays should have some snow, right? Errrr…that’s okay. I can live without it. I hope everyone has a happy and sober holiday [...]

Red Eyes and Thanksgiving

TXC89XPA8YFM I’m taking the red eye tonight – easy thing when I was in my 20s, but I am dreading it. I rarely sleep on planes and I’m going to have no opportunity to sleep on Thanksgiving.  I will surely have red eyes -  I do hope everyone has a happy and sober thanksgiving.

Dealing with Frustration

I’ve been enjoying a lovely little saga with my central air conditioning. It stopped working around the end of September. Since then I have had a series of frustrating attempts to get it fixed.  The landlord is fixated on only certain people touching his precious house. I’m fixated on not being hot.  The other day [...]