https://soberboots.org/tags/ate-uggles/Recent content in Ate Uggles on Walking in Sober Bootshttps://soberboots.org/soberboots/assets/uploads/2023/07/img_1290.jpghttps://soberboots.org/soberboots/assets/uploads/2023/07/img_1290.jpgHugoenMon, 21 Dec 2020 08:00:00 -0500https://soberboots.org/2020/12/21/hiding-in-plain-sight/Mon, 21 Dec 2020 08:00:00 -0500https://soberboots.org/2020/12/21/hiding-in-plain-sight/<p>I’m stealthy. I’ve always been good at keeping secrets — hiding things. I hid my feelings of guilt and shame about my father’s suicide when I was a kid by telling people all about it as soon as I got comfortable with them. If I told them the story quickly, and without a lot of feelings, then they would think I was over it — that I’d made peace with it. I told people that it was something that had happened, matter of factly, like it was as insignificant as what I’d had for breakfast.</p>