High Times On Bailey Drive

My Dirty Sobriety

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High Times On Bailey Drive: My Dirty Sobriety

  • Mourning Our Children’s Childhoods – The Teenage Years

    I have two teenage boys. My oldest is maturing and finally coming out of the worst it. My middle child is just now entering it. He’s in middle school – middle school simply sucks. And his attitude reflects this. I think the worst part is coming to the realization that once your kids enter the…

  • Control

    Realizing how much is actually in my control can be both difficult and relieving. One of the hardest things about my divorce has been discipling my children while the place they live for the other 50% of the time has a very different outlook on raising children. My ex and I tried to get on…

  • Book Recommendation: “We” by Robert Johnson

    Book Recommendation: “We” by Robert Johnson

    Just finished up Robert Jordan’s book on the psychology of romantic love, “We“. I’ve been hit with a nasty flu bug that’s been around. Not fun, but I had a chance to catch up on some reading. If you’ve ever been in love, currently in love, addicted to love or searching for love, I couldn’t…

  • Gone Too Soon

    Gone Too Soon

    One of my friends I grew up with was reported missing a few days ago. They found his body on the side of a street Christmas Eve. He was 40 years old. Gone too soon. My friend was a good poet. We first met at a treatment center when we were teenagers. He was smart…

  • The Beginning of Love

    The Beginning of Love

    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection…

  • The Awakening, Part 2

    The Awakening, Part 2

    You can find The Awakening, Part 1 here. Drinking while trying to save a marriage is not a good idea. Especially when the marriage is in trouble directly because of alcohol. Yet, that’s where I found myself during the month of April 2016. I entered therapy because I knew something was wrong with me. I…