A Small Peace of Winter

A Small Peace of Winter

There is an autumn chill in the air as the winter season approaches. The leaves are leaving the trees and are scattered everywhere my eyes can see. With my rake in hand I’m laboring, perhaps in vain, to clean up our garden and yard in preparation for the frosty months...

No More Bad Days

No More Bad Days

There are many pitfalls to avoid in addiction recovery. Hanging out on old playgrounds with old playmates, allowing life situations to distract us from what we need to do to stay sober, or, here’s a big one… handling emotions that have been “frozen” for years. What a...

FOGO

FOGO

I doubt that few of us have escaped FOMO: that unsettled, undefinable anticipation that perceives self as on the outside, uninvited, and funless. Whether in truth or imagined, Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) is real.  But what about FOGO? It, too, is an unsettled,...