Sometimes it seems like alcohol has always been a part of my life, though really, I didn’t have my first drink until age nine. It was whiskey. Rotgut. Straight out of the bottle. And it was my mother’s idea. In the summers, to make money to buy school clothes or anything else our parents couldn’t […]
The Thing About Wonder
“Hope springs from that which is right in front of us, which surprises us, and seems to work.” —Anne Lamott The thing about wonder, or rather our sense of wonder, is we usually start to lose it right around the time we’re shedding the last of our baby teeth. A few of us don’t, […]
The Thing About Forgiveness
“Everybody has their shit.” -Karen Stefano The thing about forgiveness is, without it, we’d all be screwed. True story. Think about it for a minute, or for or a second, if you can. Think about all those times you desperately needed forgiveness. Or maybe, if you’ve been on the opposite side—the one who has heroically […]
The Thing About the F Word
The thing about the F word is you don’t want to be called it. You don’t want to be called flakey, that is. But the thing is, there are an awful lot of flakey people out there. I’m sure you’re not one of them, and so I’m not talking about you here. Just like human […]
The Thing About Love
“To love, to be hurt often, and to love again – this is the brave and happy life.” — J.E. Buckrose Like an outage, where the power blinks off, only to return a moment later, Valentine’s Day arrived yesterday, then disappeared. Here, then Poof! Hasta la vista. See you next year. I’m pretty sure a lot […]
The Thing About Gratitude
Thanksgiving is gone. It left us on Thursday. Me, I wish every day was Thanksgiving. I love the notion of gratitude, and the way that that one day gives people the courage to be vulnerable, to say sober what we might not otherwise. I’m so incredibly happy you’re in my life. You make things better. […]
