Bottom of the barrel, dregs in the mug, a plastic grocery bag become a surrender flag giving up from the treetop. A hole dug so deep it’s become a grave. Hope seems in vain but hope anyway. Better is the […]
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What Was the Last Straw?
For me, knowing I was killing myself. For Dee, being weighed on the freight scale. For Jody, breaking his grandmother’s chair. For Sue, weighing 74 pounds. For Chrissy, waking in the hospital alive anyway. For Vanna, not finding slacks she […]
Continue reading »In the Beginning
They’re in order these Steps. To begin we figure out we’re powerless over food, our lives are unmanageable. In other words, we can’t. We move to God can, and we decide to let him. After that it falls into place, […]
Continue reading »The Numbers Are Climbing
A 28 dress size, the scales pushing three hundred, the numbers keep climbing…not just the real ones but the ones on the chart that swear if I eat this much, if I get that much exercise, then the numbers will […]
Continue reading »The Brick Wall
…before I took off to slam my head against the brick wall of my life. ~ Kirsten Ashley, Hold On When life is a brick wall, know better is better, better is doable, better is within reach. In the Rooms […]
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