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Crescendo

July 30, 2019 Susan 2 Comments

The Story of a Musical Genius Who Forever Changed a Southern Town I had never heard of Fred Allen, the…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: abuse, Allen Cheney, Cresendo, Fred Allen, Julie Cantrell, marriage, musical genius, Robert Goolrick, sobriety, The End of the World As We Know It

Birthday Musings: People Can Change #sixmonthswithoutadrink

March 8, 2018 Susan 13 Comments

I am 67 years old today. Damn, that sounds old! But it also sounds wonderful because, as E.E. Cummings said,…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: aging, alcohol, Annie Grace, birthdays, Blocked, Can People Change?, deperssion, Dr. Jamie Moran, eating disorders, Lliving Orthodoxy in the Modern World, six months without a drink, sobriety, Time and Despondency

120 Days….

January 8, 2018 Susan 9 Comments

I had my last drink four months ago today, on September 8, 2017. (If you missed my post about quitting…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: " alcohol and memory, "Even Small Amounts of Alclhol Impair Memory, 120 days sober, chocolate, Diet Coke with Splenda, food addictions, kettle cooked potato chips, Olga Khazan, sobriety

0 Meetings in 90 Days—My Final Post of 2017

December 30, 2017 Susan 18 Comments

I had planned to post this on December 8, but I decided to sit on it for awhile, just to…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: 90 Meetings in 90 Days, AA, addiction, alcohol, Alcoholics Anonymous, Annie Grace, drinking, sobriety, This Naked Mind

Not A Place On Any Map

December 2, 2016 Susan 2 Comments

I met Alexis Paige in 2011 at the Memphis Creative Nonfiction Workshop I organized that year. We had an immediate…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Alexis Paige, drunk driving, incarceration, lyric essys, Not A Place On Any Map, Puschart Prize, rape, recovery, sobriety

Mental Health Monday: Sobriety and Laughter

August 5, 2013 Susan 6 Comments

One month ago today I underwent surgery to fuse several cervical vertebrae and begin to repair broken bones in my…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: alcohol, comic strips, laughter, mental health, recovery, sobriety, surgery, The New Yorker

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