I would rather do anything… everything…whatever it takes… not to have to resign as your sponsor. I’m not the best. Sometimes I feel like the worst, but I know that’s the disease taking over my thoughts and mouth, my heart […]
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A Plastic Disk
Thirty Days, Sixty, Ninety, Six Months, Seven Years, Thirty-Four. Plastic. Cheap…even lots of years, a few bucks. A plastic disk. It can be the achievement to remember forever or something scary, public recognition when you feel unworthy, something to drive […]
Continue reading »The Tootsie Roll
They give them away at the gym, say they’re just five calories, “you’ve earned it.” Just five calories? Just? They don’t understand. Those Tootsie Rolls aren’t an inch, they’re massive logs in cattle troughs on either end of the front […]
Continue reading »Not My Food
(Credit to Miranda O) A wedding with a bride’s cake and a groom’s. A basket of Valentine candy, picked through, but still sitting there. The newest Blizzard flavor. Those drive-through windows ready to serve up an apple fritter in exchange […]
Continue reading »Face Down in Cheesecake
I’m not facedown in a cheesecake. Miranda Dunkin’ Donuts coming to town… making the newspaper, TV, radio, talk around the coffee pot. Valentines…get candy for everybody you know or you won’t be respected and they won’t feel loved. You have […]
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