Writing on Walking in Sober Boots

Our writer has lost his voice

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 12:04:38 -0500

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 misgivings arose from my own misunderstandings of things.

It’s Been a Struggle

Mon, 19 Mar 2018 08:00:40 -0400

The past few months have been a struggle for my son as well as for my wife and me. We have been working to address some challenges he faces with ADHD through medication for about six months. We have also been working with a therapist and attempting to work with his school during this time as well. Things have gone well with the therapy but the other fronts have been marginal at best.

What Does It Mean To Write a Recovery Blog?

Wed, 09 Aug 2017 10:30:08 -0400

I went to bed with feelings of fear and guilt. As the rhetoric toward North Korea from the White House fired up to unprecedented levels my lizard brain went kicked into high gear last night.

I’ve been reading Ken Follett’s “Century Trilogy” and I’m on the last book Edge of Eternity which is about the Cold War period of the twentieth century. I’ve just gotten past the Cuban Missile Crisis in the book and can’t help but compare that crisis to our current crisis with North Korea. I’m not alone.

We Must Not Fear the Angry Anthems

Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:15:10 -0500

I do not live in fear for my life, my son, my wife, my mother, or brother.

I do not feel the violent assault, the insult of bellicose abuse because I am white.

I have not walked intolerable miles in the shoes of our black, gay, Latin, lesbian, Muslim, and transgendered brothers and sisters.