Handle It
“Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t” – Mars-Mountain Joy jingle Coffee. Prayer. Gangster Rap. Tools. That Mars-Mountain Joy commercial got it right. Some days you feel like a rock star;...
View ArticleOne Week
“Hot like wasabi when I bust rhymes/ Speak like LeAnn Rimes/ Because I’m all about value” – Barenaked Ladies, “One Week” If I made films, they would most definitely have a Samurai. I mean, why not?...
View ArticleTo Know We Are Not Alone
“For every man must have somewhere to go. Since there are times when one absolutely must go somewhere!” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment My name is Carrie Neal, and I’m an alcoholic. Two years...
View ArticleThe 13 Steps
[This piece is being submitted for a podcast and blog on 13th Step Relationships, coming out in Summer 2019 and will be reproduced in other outlets] “No relationships in the first year.” – ubiquitous...
View ArticleFour
Thomas Jefferson believed that we should never stop learning. At Virginia, we are known as First Years, Second Years, Third and Fourth Years, with no finish line in sight. It makes perfect, intuitive,...
View ArticleStay Edacious
Edacious (ĭ-dā′shəs): adj. Characterized by voracity; devouring. – Merriam-Webster “Stay edacious, y’all.” My friend Nae Libby lives like a boss. She questions, she challenges, she runs at...
View ArticleConnection
“The opposite of addiction is connection” – common recovery saying Never would the ubiqutous “we” cited by many in long-term recovery as the critical word in their success reveal its power as much as...
View ArticleThis is a Political Post
Kinda. The past six or eight or 732 months have been brutal. Sticking to this sole topic, it finally clicked that my political views directly reflect my belief in recovery as my worldview. My deep...
View ArticleThe Kemptonite and The Kraken
It seems like eons ago that Jaun Antonio Samaranch, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President announced words high school students by their lockers will never forget: “The International Olympic...
View ArticleTeam Us & Other Tall Tales
“A power greater than any human being helped make this decision.” – Herbert J. Steifel My husband and I started referring to ourselves as “Team Us” early on. He tells me he was sold on the prospect...
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