Walking in Sober Boots
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On September 23, 2015, I traded in my drinking shoes for a pair of sober boots. I won't rehash my story here. I do my best to take life as it comes and I've found that when I do that, I don't have reasons to drink.
Walking in Sober Boots
1y ago
It’s been twenty-seven days since my brother died suddenly during his sleep. We got the cause of death about a week ago and I have been sitting with it. He’d had a mysterious illness that the doctors could not diagnose. His only symptoms were that he had a fever that wouldn’t go away and that ..read more
Walking in Sober Boots
1y ago
I catch myself again; Looking for you in the doorway. Expecting you to walk out onto the porch, wrap an arm around my shoulder, and hold me close as you did when all the others died. Not this time. No, not this time, you are not here. Still, I won’t believe it; my aching heart ..read more
Walking in Sober Boots
1y ago
As a person who’s life could be described as one traumatic event after another, I’m really good at catastrophic thinking. I can plan for the worst with the best of them. I mean, I used to think about the fact that terrorists could hijack a plane and use it as a missile ever time I ..read more
Walking in Sober Boots
1y ago
I’m grateful that I’m a sober dad. My boy had all four of his impacted wisdom teeth extracted yesterday and I was able to be present and attentive because I am sober. Of all the things that caused me shame during my drinking days, nothing caused more self loathing than the knowledge that I was ..read more
Walking in Sober Boots
1y ago
Over the 547 days since I last wrote here my life has changed for the better dramatically. Without going into any details, I’ll just say that my family and I have emerged from some very challenging circumstances. Personally, I have put in a great deal of work to be in a better place and have ..read more
Walking in Sober Boots
1y ago
I feel that I’ve lost my voice in my writing. Since I started this blog, my posts have been largely confessional in nature. Early on, a lot of my posts were about my struggles with various aspects of the 12 Step world as I understood it at the time. Some, but not all, of those ..read more
Walking in Sober Boots
1y ago
I feel like I lost time this summer. The entire month of July feels like it was lost. Most of August as well. It was hot, and humid, as it always is in Maryland over the summer. I stayed mostly indoors. Back in June, I made a decision that I needed to stop running because ..read more
Walking in Sober Boots
1y ago
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of self forgiveness lately. I think that self forgiveness presents a challenge for many people, in and out of recovery. As humans, we often judge our own actions through ..read more
Walking in Sober Boots
1y ago
“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” — Polonius, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene III Polonius’s advice to his son Laertes comes in the context of finances and very likely was received by an Elizabethan audience ..read more
Walking in Sober Boots
1y ago
I passed my final certification test for work yesterday. I am grateful to have that off my plate. Tests make me extremely nervous. I spent time connecting with coworkers to discuss a weekly article related to the balancing act of work. It is really cool to connect with people out of my own org and ..read more