Oh my gosh. We played 18 holes of golf in that chill yesterday. With two 70-year-old salty women. One of these women is my AA sponsor, but it was simply by coincidence that we were included in this outing. Deb met the other woman in a recent golf tournament, and it was they who set [...]
Posts Tagged ‘AA’
Give Me Salty Women
Posted in Body, tagged AA, AK, golf, O'bannon golf club, sunblock on September 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I Have a Short Attention Span
Posted in Complaints, tagged AA, boredom, camera, meetings on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My damn camera’s been set on the wrong damned thing. I’ve been wondering why most of the pictures I take are blurry and the exact pictures Deb takes (with her camera) are sharp. Now I’ve discovered that my camera’s been set at some low resolution for sending images over the internet. I’ve changed it. But [...]
But I Do Love the Uniforms
Posted in Scooter, tagged AA, Brownies, clubs, membership, Scooter, XYL on March 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m not much of a joiner. I’m more of a quitter. Yesterday I received news that I’m being invited to join a club. See, I ride my scooter with a bunch of people who until just a few years ago were simply a bunch of loosely gathered scooter-riding people. To make a long story very [...]
A Little Creativity, a Lot of Maintenance
Posted in Domestic, tagged AA, energy, Family, furnace, home, maintenance on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our gas bills have just about buried us since we moved into this old house. We’ve done everything we know to do within our budget to get energy efficient, but still…very high bills in the winter. Last week, the motor on one of our furnaces blew up, and the furnace guy who came to fix [...]
Where the Key Is Hidden
Posted in Family, tagged AA, Al-Anon, alcoholism, bicycle, coyotes, mental illness, psychiatric emergency room on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our doors are temporarily locked. If you’re coming to visit, let me know, and I’ll tell you where the key is hidden.
Yesterday, as happens every now and then, Deb’s brother threatened to kill us. As you may already know, he struggles with mental illness and alcoholism…it’s hard for mentally ill people to get sober, but [...]
Third Places
Posted in Alcoholism, On the Town, bicycle, tagged AA, Austin American-Statesman, bicycle, Bouldin Creek Coffeehouse, Coffee Emporium, Coffee Please, NPR, third place on December 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A “third place” is some place other than home and other than work where you like to go. Like “Cheers.” Since I heard this segment on NPR last week, I’ve been sort of stuck on the thought of it. NPR’s segment focused on the intersection of the third place and the crashing economy—apparently, not only [...]
A Toxic Toxic, or why it’s good to have a reader
Posted in Alcoholism, Family, tagged AA, alcoholism on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in such a foul mood this morning, Reader, that I don’t know how to write, so I will simply say that though the planned obsolescence of Christmas-light strings is not the cause of my dark cloud, it does not help.
There are some bad mixes: alcoholism, mental illness, inlaws, Christianity, the inability to say “no,” [...]
