A Song Not Scored For Breathing

I can smell roast beef cooking as I type. Roast beef was youngest son's birthday meal request. As of today I am no longer the parent of ...

Yesterday we gathered with dearest one's family for the afternoon and evening. He and his siblings take turns organizing the day, plann...

Originally we were going to be just four for Christmas dinner. Dearest one, me, only daughter and youngest son. In the end dearest one's...

Today is my first pajama day since I came home from treatment three and a half months ago. After 20 days of getting dressed and showered I f...

This afternoon the batch of fudge just about ready to put in the pan when the phone rang. As I raced to pick it up before the answering mac...

A few weeks back I picked up my Bible to read in Romans and the whole way through I felt condemned....preachers from my past echoing in my h...

I just put my peppernut dough in the fridge to chill and Mich asked for the recipe so here it is if you'd like to try it. Peppernuts ar...

It's a white wonderland out there today. Makes me thankful to be able to be inside. I've been slowly clearing out clutter this week ...

Today's title comes as a direct quote from my addictions counselor. Three years ago today I created this blog. If you've ever wonde...

Today would've been my brother Rodney's 47th birthday. I wrote about him here last year. He died two days after his birth. I wrote ...

Cold or snow, which would you like? Both? You got it. Pretty soon we'll have to use a tractor to plow the driveway to get out. Today ...

Week day mornings at 10 AM you can find me listening to the obituaries on the radio. Having spent several years with elderly women from a ne...

A letter marked confidential arrived for me in the mail yesterday. How weird it was to see my own name on an envelope in my own handwriting....

I'm sick in more than just my body today. My thinking is, too. It was just last week when I said to dearest one that we sure didn't ...

I came face to face with my not knowing when to quit character defect again today. I woke up in the night with a painful sliver infested t...

"Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand." ~ from Carrie Underwood's song So Small

Life is good.

My sponsor celebrated her AA birthday today. It was fun to see her receive her card and medallion for 17 years of sobriety. The cake was g...

It's been a beautiful gift of a day. When I first went back to AA I chose a home group called Gratitude 24/7. At the time I thought peop...

There is a beautiful winter blue sky out there this morning. I guess that's the price of cold weather - because that intense shade of bl...