On February 12th, 1994, I was 17 years old and living in a halfway house in Opelousas, Louisiana, when I decided to do something different. I wasn’t deciding to stay sober for the rest of my life; I didn’t even think I had five years in the future as a certainty. The day before, I […]
In September 2014, I was diagnosed with stage three cancer, and by the time I was done with two major surgeries and four rounds of intense chemo, my brain was fried. I couldn’t concentrate and was full of fog if I tried. I was starting to work part-time and couldn’t do much before feeling a […]
A quarter century ago I tried to not drink. You’d think that would be super easy, or depending on who you are, really hard. I wasn’t sure that I’d stay sober that long, or if I thought I wanted to be sober, or if it was something I could do, but I knew that the […]