Life Without Beer Goggles

An alcoholism blog about the journey of living life sober

Not Afraid

My 11 year old niece asked me if I was afraid of dying. I guess I better go back a little bit and fill you all in on how we got to that question.  We had a scare in our extended family and thought we might lose somebody.  The phone call came out of nowhere [...]

Aerial Meltdown

I’m sure you all already heard of the flight attendant onboard American Airlines flight 2332 that had her a bit of a rough day.  If you haven’t just watch the video below and then I’ll tell you what I think of it… I walked away from being a flight attendant nine years ago now.  Holy [...]

A Little Venting

It’s been a little while since I had me a bit of a bitch fest.  I guess like many of you we all have our time and this is mine. You all know that I replaced my drinking with golf.  For many years after I stopped drinking I golfed my butt off.  I was playing [...]

Erection Specialist

In recovery we have 12 Steps and they’re all as important as the other.  I’m voting that we include a new step.  We can call it Step 1.5: Find The Humor or Let The Humor Find You.  Once we’ve done Step One and “We admitted we were powerless over our addiction – that our lives [...]