Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing up […]
Continue reading »Panache
Recovery for sale! See the ads, catch the buzz, glamour, glitz, you’re worth the cost. Recovery that’s chic, zap addictions with flair. Recovery for free! Come and get it, no charge. No frills, no joke, recovery for free. Simple, plain […]
Continue reading »A Little Chunk of Me
Recovery’s the goal, progress presumed, yet expecting perfection jerks me back to disease. An ever shrinking chunk of me remains unrepentant, unreachable, unloveable, ugly. Others enter these rooms obnoxious, argumentative, angry, unloveable. Love, though, knows no bounds, reaches across to unlovely. […]
Continue reading »What Does Archie Teach Edith?
She learns to do what she agrees promptly encouraged by his disappointment expressed as anger when she slips. She learns to get her worth from inside, independent of his appraisal of her. She learns discretion as to where lines must […]
Continue reading »Sail the Course
It was the goal for years and years. If I weighed a hundred forty I’d be cured, healthy, normal… fit in. But it didn’t work, long time. Oh, I’d catch a strong breeze at times, sail on it like a […]
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