I’ll never forget when it happened. It was just before my 48th birthday in July. We knew we’d soon be saying goodbye to our cat. After a glorious financial uptick, we were getting pounded with…
Browsing Category Epiphanies
Two Years Sober
I’m writing today’s #BonBlast from New York, where I got sober two years ago. You’re likely reading this while I’m in flight to Barcelona, having officially gone off the grid — yes, tech-free (I’ll only…
A Letter to My Sober Coach
This is an email I sent to my sober coach, Bex Weller (check out her book, A Happier Hour). I had a lovely moment today I wanted to share with you. We were hosting a…
Charlsie and the Hummingbird
Let me tell you about hummingbirds. My mother loved them. She loved all birds but especially hummingbirds. She was fascinated by their speed, their ability to hover, their amazing talent for drinking bright red sugar…
Happy 13th Anniversary, Baby
Keith and I became engaged on December 15, 2001. We called off the big wedding we had scheduled for October 12, 2002 due to all sorts of reasons having nothing to do with us and…
I’m Most Myself When I Travel
I don’t know about you, but I love to travel. Always have. My dad worked for Delta for 40 years so I grew up putting on my Sunday best, showing up super early to the…
Choosing Sobriety
I’m showing up to the keyboard not sure what’ll end up here. That’s not typical. I have a very well-developed muscle for churning out thousands of words and knowing precisely what I plan to say,…
Summer Insomnia
There’s something that happens to me this time of year. Keith had to remind me today that it does in fact happen *every* year and that made me wonder WHY. But then I remembered that…
SMFA4: I Got It
Okay, so I’m in Day Three of my writer’s retreat. I steal off to the desert whenever I have a huge “to do” and need to turn off LA for a while. I also come…
I so love my life.
That is all.