Life is not a teeter-totter. When you go up, an equal, opposite reaction doesn’t happen, never shoves me down. When we work together, we can’t feel resentment, don’t have to yield stature so another can shine. Like bedsprings not connected, […]
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Dragon Odds
He’s not the dragon closest to my boat, yet in the water, daring, waiting, pulling me to gamble, buy the ticket, play the odds. He’s in my blood, breathing fire, intoxicating, pulling, singing siren songs. He’s who I am, all […]
Continue reading »When We Retire at Night
We constructively review our day. How many times have I lain in bed and trounced the ruins I’d made of a day, wildly swinging blame at all who’d chanced my way — especially me. Recriminations and guilt consumed me like […]
Continue reading »My Story
You want to know about how miserable I was at 300 pounds, how I hated me? You want to know how I returned to a fast-food place until a cashier knew what I would order? You want to know how […]
Continue reading »The Circuit Speakers
Sometimes I grin about my iPod, how little music, how much recovery populates that square inch of comfort and fills my dreams. Joe and Charlie, Chuck C, Patti O, Clancy, John A…. They drone on as I sleep, but just […]
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