Day 204 Alcohol-Free: Dive Bar Memories

I was feeling a little off today. A bit lonely, I guess. This happens every now and then, usually around my "time of the month," and can be a little draining, to say the least. I was driving home from the gym, after hosting another great writer's meetup group, and the desire to drive to …

192 Days Alcohol Free: On Vocation, Patience and Vulnerability

Still here, friends. Still with you. 192 days alcohol free. It’s amazing, really, how the days keep creeping upward, just as a green vine crawls forever toward the sun, twining around a steadfast wooden support that grows taller and mends its own splinters with every day that passes. Today I'm feeling a mixture of pensiveness, …

“In case you’re still not drinking”

Hi, lovelies. I’m here on day 172 sober, and day 7 of going low-carb. Christmas was less difficult than I would’ve previously expected it to be as a sugar-free sober person, but still, it was a little harder than what I wanted. Of course, don’t we all want a holiday season to pass effortlessly, without …

5 Month Soberversary

Today marks 5 months of sobriety for me. As has been the case with every day I made it past the first 30, this is the longest I've been sober since I turned 21, over 6 years ago. Today, I got out of bed at 11:30am, threw a load of laundry in the wash, and …

150 Days Alcohol Free: The Sip

This past weekend was good. It was actually really good. But let me get this out of the way before I go into anything else: I took a sip of one of my boyfriend’s cocktails yesterday.  Yes, I took a sip. I did that.  I took a sip, knowing full well that it was an …

145 Days Alcohol Free: Getting Through the Weird Days

It's been a weird couple of days for me.  So, Sunday night, for some reason or another, I got so hot and bothered that I nearly walked out of my boyfriend’s apartment at 12:30 in the morning. He reacted poorly to my little stunt, as one might expect, and told me that it was entirely …

Day 88 Alcohol Free: #literallyme and other boozy meme-isms

I’ve slowly been coming to the somewhat sad and slightly aggravating realization that while my sobriety is incredibly important to me, my newfound attitude about alcohol doesn’t have any effect on anyone other than myself and those around me who also choose to abstain. Wine memes and Pumpkiny Booze Drink recipes and Instagram beer photos …

Busy, Busy, Busy

It's amazing how much you can accomplish in a day when you're not sitting on your butt drinking wine/beer while watching yet another episode of House, telling yourself, "this is seriously the last one. then I'll get X, Y, and Z done." Today was an especially productive day. I made some good progress on my …

What I’ve Learned from 80 Days of Sobriety

  So, I've been alcohol-free for 80 days. That feels like everything and nothing at all. I thought I'd write a little piece here about some of the things I've come to realize for myself in the past 80 days - things I wish someone would've explained to me before I started. As such, these …

One Reason I’ll Be Sober for Your Wedding (and everything else)

This weekend I’ll be flying out to Denver for a dear friend’s wedding. My flight leaves at 5:45am (ugh) and I’ll arrive Saturday morning in the Centennial State, ready for my first solo, sober wedding adventure. I'm actually pretty excited. Last year, I was a bridesmaid in a friend’s wedding out in Phoenix. I was …