Leaning against one of the bookshelves at the Strand this past Sunday, I reread Raymond Carver’s short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. This simple and somewhat confusing story has always been, for me, a reminder of how difficult it is to capture love in words. What is love? What isn’t? [...]
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Alcoholism
Posted in Alcoholism, Meditation, Recovery, Writing, tagged Alcoholism, Awareness, change, drinking problem, meditation, progress, recovery, Whitney Houston, writing on March 8, 2012 | 9 Comments »
Drinking and writing: like scotch and soda or oil and water?
Posted in Meditation, Recovery, Writing, tagged Alcohol, Awareness, change, drinking problem, expectations, fear, living in the moment, meditation, progress, recovery, Shamatha, Susan Piver, uncertainty, writing on April 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Julia Cameron says early in her book The Artist’s Way that before she quit drinking, she thought drinking and writing went together like scotch and soda. Before I quit drinking, I agreed. I loved the idea of writing and drinking. They were the perfect couple. Pouring a glass of wine and sitting down to the [...]
