Boozemusings

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

 

Category: Sober Stories

  • I’ll Miss Brad Pitt on “The Wagon” but I’m not Giving up My Seat!

    I’ll Miss Brad Pitt on “The Wagon” but I’m not Giving up My Seat!

    Recent reports suggest that after seven years of sobriety, Brad Pitt believes he can drink moderately. He has proclaimed in an interview, that he is “Off the Wagon”. That is his personal decision. But when a celebrity speaks publicly about drinking again after years of sobriety, the message travels far beyond him. I don’t work…

  • Deconstructing the Wine Myth

    Deconstructing the Wine Myth

    When I was about 10 and my sister 8, there was a rash of home burglaries in our neighborhood. On our side of the street, a ditch ran behind the houses that was about 3’ wide and deep, and on the other side was woods. We spent a lot of time playing back there, and…

  • Coming Home

    Coming Home

    Fairly active and healthy – how could I develop a racing heart, throat and stomach pain, and creeping neuropathy in my fingertips and feet – all from my fondness for (read: dependence upon!) wine? 

  • It’s Never Too Late to Change- Perspective from 3 Years Sober

    It’s Never Too Late to Change- Perspective from 3 Years Sober

    It’s a bit surreal to me that I ended up sober. Whoever heard of a sober musician who worked as a bartender and chef? My whole life seemed to revolve around the next drink or party. I had more fun drinking than I should have ever been allowed. But it started going south at some…