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The sun set before 7 pm last night.
I know because I was standing at the kitchen sink with my hands in dishwater, and I felt it before I saw it—that little drop in my chest when the light goes gold and then gray. I felt an ache for missing my kids, who are off at college now. The newfound freedom of empty nesting lost its luster. The season is changing; I cut down the...
Nobody hands a newborn a glass of chardonnay.
I think about that more than you'd expect. Every single one of us arrived here alcohol-free. Clear-eyed, fully present, running on nothing but milk and sleep and the occasional dramatic cry. That was our factory setting. When a baby is born with substances in their system, we don't call it normal. We call it what it ...
The pool towels are still hanging on the deck railing, and they are not going to dry today. It is 62 degrees. Yesterday it was 88.
That is how it happens every year. Summer does not end with an announcement. It just gets quiet.
I used to love the last week of August and dread it at the same time, and I could not have told you why. Now I can.
Summer was my...
I drank on plenty of nights after I swore I was done.
Back then my plan for staying alcohol-free at a party was to white-knuckle it and hope. Get through the door, smile, and hold my breath until I can leave.
Hope is not a plan. I know because I drank.
And the next morning I'd...