How tired is too tired?
I remember writing a blog several years ago (before kids) trying to defend myself on being just that tired. How tired was I really? Tired, or so I thought. In today’s world we are tired… with or without kids, this job or that job, because we always have to be going and doing. That is how we prove ourselves. How much we can get done in the little time that we actually have. Now, what I do know now, that I am telling my younger self, is that I was NOT in fact tired then. Not th
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And then there were kids
Those of you that have kids, depending on their ages, do you ever still pinch yourselves having to remind yourself that these are really your kids? Like you really, actually have kids? It’s the wildest thing to me sometimes to think about the fact that I actually have kids. Maybe this sounds weird. Or maybe this sounds totally relatable to you. For a woman like me, it was something that was always the unobtainable dream of mine (to get married and have children). As a child m
Apr 86 min read
What is this life thing really all about?And why is being “human” so bad?
I’ve been thinking a lot about life lately, and I’ve determined its weird, but not in a bad way. I just have such a different perspective on life now than I did when I was a kid vs 12 years ago vs even 2 years ago. Which makes sense, I suppose it is supposed to change with us as we grow and change as people. I remember as a kid and into my teens and early twenties (smack dab in the middle of my drinking career) how I wanted time to hurry up because I wanted to get to the futu
Apr 44 min read
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Last weekend I was able to attend the Freedom from Bondage Conference that comes to this area every March. I’ve been attending it ever since I was living in this area, the first being when I was a resident of a halfway house here in town back in 2014. It meant a lot to me then, but means so much more to me as each year progresses. It is a conference about carrying the message of “Alcoholics Anonymous” into prisons and jails around the country, trying to help as many people as
Mar 304 min read
Life in a photo album
You know those photo albums from yesteryear? The ones where you pasted actual printed out pictures from an actual camera? Where you took the time and care with each picture you took, being extremely intentional with what pictures you were taking and when and how many and then taking the time to put them in these said photo albums for memories? And then going back through that same photo album years later and getting a sense of love and memory of the event all over again? I wa
Mar 253 min read
Driving in the fast lane…continued
I can’t help but to continue this topic, as it has been on my mind a lot. Several thoughts have consumed me around the ability to drive again. For one, just the freedom in it. Something that most of us just don’t think about on a daily basis if you have never not been able to drive (not had a license and/or vehicle to drive). That freedom is indescribable. And even though I’ve been sober for many years, it almost feels like that same kind of freedom from when I first got sobe
Mar 204 min read
Grace and Perfectionism: How do these go together?
Ahh, the age-old topic of perfectionism, something that I feel like we are hearing more and more about these days. What does it mean and how does it relate to me? Perfectionism: relentless drive for flawlessness, setting excessively high often unattainable standards, and engaging in overly critical self-evaluations. Yes, yes, and more yes. I didn’t know what this word meant when I was a child but boy, did I experience it and continue to ever since. I heard it from everyone ar
Mar 163 min read
