June 2, 2012
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t [...]
March 9, 2012
Before I came to the rooms of NA I really didn’t know a whole lot about having gratitude for much of anything or anyone. Everything was always everyone elses fault and I never wanted to take responsibility for anything. All I cared about was getting high all of the time and it didn’t matter who [...]
December 24, 2011
I went to a meeting last week where they handed out candy canes with words attached to them. The words, individual to each person, served as the night’s topic. My word was perfectionism. My first reaction was just that I was no longer a perfectionist. Too easy. Once upon a time, I was a perfectionist. [...]
October 15, 2011
This year hasn’t been an easy one on a lot of levels. Take your pick: relationships, injuries, depression, health issues, financial issues, employment “challenges.” I’m a survivor, but I’m not catlike. I don’t always land on my feet. Sometimes I land in a heap and roll around on the ground for awhile, but I do [...]
October 13, 2011
My boss shut the door to my office and sat down across the desk from me. It wasn’t a meeting I was expecting; closing the door put my anxiety level on alert. Four weeks earlier, two days before Christmas, he had told me that the company was letting four people go and that I was [...]
August 18, 2011
I always held myself to a higher standard than the people around me. I thought I wasn’t supposed to make mistakes. I had to foresee every possible problem and plan accordingly. I wasn’t striving for excellence, I was trying to achieve perfection. Of course, I was never able to do anything perfectly. There was always [...]
August 8, 2011
I was shopping with my eldest mini ninja, who is an inquisitive little thing; and checking out with a cart full of win. Ella (age 7) spies a magazine which she pulls out and begins thumbing through. I saw the LIFE logo on the front and didn’t think anything of it until I realized it [...]
July 24, 2011
How do you handle failure? Failure is defined as “a lack of success.” I’ve recently had a failure of my own, in fact it was my first failure since I began my sobriety/sanity journey. Catching my attention was not the fact that I had failed at something, but rather how I was going to handle [...]
July 22, 2011
Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer. ~Terri Guillemets …for this new life wherein in even when feeling the heaviness of the “blahs” for no apparent reason, it’s still far better then the hell I was rescued from through God’s loving grace. …to take the time to write my gratitude, a prayer of [...]
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