Boozemusings

If You’re Drinking Too Much Too Often Rethink the Drink

 

Category: Sober Stories

  • Alcoholism is … ?

    Alcoholism is … ?

    What is alcoholism? Am I an alcoholic? I grew up seeing men sitting contently on “their” bar stools in dark quiet bars, playing the football pool, getting each other to help with construction jobs or house repair, shooting the shit, and letting loose. Bars and booze were the vital source of adult life and freedom…

  • How I Escaped the Trap of Gray Area Drinking

    How I Escaped the Trap of Gray Area Drinking

    By the time I became a daily drinker, my youngest child was in high school and my older ones were youngish adults. I was happily married and satisfied with my life. I wrote poetry and had quite a bit of it published, gave readings, put together a chapbook, traveled when I had the chance. I…

  • Imagining a New Life … Sober

    Imagining a New Life … Sober

    Sometimes I have a hard time imagining a new sober life for myself, which is laughable and sad. I’m a fiction writer. I can write a thousand different lives for myself. I ride bareback across eastern Montana. I’m an archaeologist on Monday, a foreign correspondent on Tuesday. How can I imagine a life in which,…

  • Retrieving Me – My Sober Journey

    Retrieving Me – My Sober Journey

    I had been focused on the physical benefits of sobriety, immersed in all sorts of quit lit and online support groups and pouring my heart out in a private online journal. I felt sorta in control of the journey. But now I felt like I was wrestling a giant bear that nobody else could see…