This one is a hard one for a lot of us alcoholics at first. We are so often pig-headed, stubborn and in such a desperate need to control...

Many of us are stuck in our homes and in our heads a lot more than we are used to these days. It can be a challenging place to be for us...

There are two quotes that come to mind when I think about the coin that holds optimism on one side and pessimism on the other. The first...

Nicotine is alcohol's weird cousin often showing up to the party unexpectedly. For some of us it is the first thing we think of in the...

When we speak about isolation in alcoholism it is often about physical isolation. Making our worlds smaller and smaller in hopes of...

Covid-19 has changed life dramatically for everyone. I have had quite a few conflicting feelings over the past week. Vacillating between...

It seems like this should go without saying but we are a stubborn bunch, us alcoholics. It wasn't that I thought I knew it all but...

It seems to take on a bit different meaning in the time of the coronavirus. As I write this there has been a 'shelter in place' mandate...

Jerry reminded on a recent episode that we used to drunkenly Skype some seven or eight years ago. Bored and lonely we would smoke...

I just turned forty-three. It is not how I expected at all. It is so much better. In all my years of drinking I always saw pain and...