The Radicalization of Amy*
(* Name changed to protect privacy)
If it could happen to her, it can happen to anyone.
Amy and I met working at a bar in Chicago in our twenties. She had a quick wit and a dirty mouth. …
Christen
I’m back, I guess.
I guess now is as good a time as any to return to writing. As of today, the world is a literal dumpster fire and we are all stuck in this COVID nightmare. And like many of you, we have …
Raye of Light
You could say that life has thrown us some curve balls over the last year. And while from the outside, through photos on cell phone screens and social media apps, it may appear that life has been fairly uneventful for …
Sober On A Drinking Trip- High West Distillery, Utah
A little late on the post here. Things have had a way of being super crazy lately. Between work, being 6 months pregnant, chasing around a 2 1/2 year old and handmaking baby mobiles (more on that later), life has …
Temperance Sucks
(Photo credit: thenonist.com)
“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Considering the legacy of alcoholism that Fitzgerald left behind, I’d say he knew a thing or two about the …
Origins of the hustle…
When I was a kid and needed milk money, or lunch money for school, I had to dig around my Dad’s change box in his room while he let out grumbly snores a few feet away in bed, wading in …