My Poetry Challenge to Myself

My Poetry Challenge to Myself

The universe works in mysterious ways. I have been having a creativity block or something. However, poetry has always come easier to me, so that is what I will do for the next two blog posts – poetry.

What Happened to All My Words??

What Happened to All My Words??

Is it writer’s block? Maybe. It’s more that I don’t have the focus for a full length blog post. What do I do? I write poetry that’s what. Why that is my go to answer to my brain block, who knows?

Defending My Sobriety

Defending My Sobriety

I wasn’t exactly expecting celebratory streamers…okay, maybe I was. I was about to embark on an arduous task. Where were my cheerleaders?

Everyone Loves the Life of the Party

Everyone Loves the Life of the Party

I hid my alcoholism for so long because I was high-functioning. People don’t want to spend time with alcoholics or their perception of alcoholics, but if you are high-functioning, you are the life of the party.

The Slow Descent to Sobriety

The Slow Descent to Sobriety

This is my story of being a recovering alcoholic. I am three years sober; this was not my first time trying to be sober. However, this is the time that it stuck.

Learning to Love Sober Life

Learning to Love Sober Life

I used only to have one birthday month, and now I have two. The first one is my actual birth month, August, and my second birth month is when I stopped drinking, December. So this December marks three years of sobriety.