I quit drinking on July 3, 2017. It’s been 8 years since I’ve had a drop of alcohol. I wasn’t a daily drinker or even a weekly drinker. But most of the time when I drank, I DRANK. When I hit my mid-forties (I’m 55 now), smaller amounts of alcohol started affecting my body differently.
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It’s Okay to Take a Day Off
The weather here in CT has been especially rainy, cool and annoying for weeks. The kids’ last day of school was nine days ago, but it didn’t start to feel like summer until two days ago. Yesterday Kasen and Marit were free all day until swim practice at 4 pm, and they had a couple
It took me a while, but I figured out the formula.
Six months ago I had a pretty big meltdown and basically told the kids if they didn’t want to follow the rules at here at home they could go live somewhere else. It wasn’t one of my better parenting moments. But it did force me to take a look at where that anger was coming
Trying Not to Miss Out on Anything Is Making You Miss Everything
Three years ago the middle school swim team here in town was in danger of folding – there was nobody to run the program, and not wanting Kasen, Gretchen and Marit to miss out on the experience, I stepped up. I had been the head coach of the program before, but I hadn’t run the
Stop Setting Yourself On Fire
Divorce has been a real-life intensive course in boundaries for me. At first, it taught me that I had none, and now it’s teaching me how to establish them. But what the heck are boundaries? Boundaries is a pretty popular word these days, and I think it’s also misunderstood. Especially by women my age and
Young Grasshopper Is Learning
Ingrid’s swim coach has built a great swim lesson program and he runs it out of the university pool where she trains. Many of his swim lesson instructors are college students. They teach lessons to make some money during the school year, and some stay at school and work during the summer, too. Ingrid became