Last September I lost my mother. She died unexpectedly one day, all at once. She was my last living parent, as my father had passed on a few years before. My father did not die unexpectedly. His body had been ravaged by cancer. It spread throughout his body and his death was drawn out and …
Category: Mental Health
Sex Talk – An excerpt from my novel-in-progress A Long Slow Aftermath
This is an excerpt from my novel-in-progress A Long Slow Aftermath. This scene introduces the main character Preston’s Narcotics Anonymous friends Haste and Durant as they talk about the art of going South of the border! “I swear, I can still taste her,” said Haste. “Taste her?” asked Preston. “Her pussy. I …
“Clean” versus “Clean and Sober”: Bullies in Twelve Step
As a recovering addict I belong to a few Narcotics Anonymous groups on various social media platforms. In one online forum, a man who was still relatively new to Narcotics Anonymous posted that he had been clean and sober for a few months. A few people congratulated him on his clean time, but more than …
On the Subject of Speed and Privy Members – An excerpt from my novel The Falling Circle
Here is an excerpt from my novel The Falling Circle, a story about being down and out and punk in the big city. Available on Amazon.com It was an unusually cold night. The biting cold seemed to make the night extra dark. A good gust of wind would shoot by now and then as Preston …
Enough with the Introvert Humor – Pandemics and Mental Health
I got to know a young woman in a German conversation group that I used to run, a German woman who had moved to the United States with her German husband. I asked her “Why don’t you bring your husband by sometime? We could always use more native Germans here.” She tilted her head around …
My Uneasy Relationship with Twelve Step
I have been clean for more than twenty years, after having lived a life of using copious amounts of alcohol and recreational drugs. That’s how I usually say it, that I’ve been clean all of these years, but to some people who aren’t down with the Bill Wilson way of speaking I might say I’ve …