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My favorite writer, Paul Monette, along with several collections of poetry, an acclaimed collection of essays, and two biographies, one of which won the National Book Award, wrote a bunch of pulp fiction. It is pulp. The stories aren’t challenging. They don’t really give one much to think about. But they are so beautifully written [...]
Tags: America, Idaho, Los Angeles, Paul Monette
Trey McIntyre's dance company performing “Leatherwing Bat” last month at Jacob’s Pillow in Becket, Mass
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There are all kinds of things that I think automatically, answers I give without consideration, judgements I enter without a fair trial. Moving beyond my knee-jerk psychic construct, at least with regard to drugs and alcohol, and [...]
Tags: addict, Addiction, ballet, Becket, bias, Boise, coma, dance, Idaho, Jacob's Pillow, judgement, Leatherwing Bat, methamphetamine, Morrison Center, prejudice, Recovery, social event, theater, Trey McIntyre Project, wardrobe, Willingness
I don’t get to see my sister often; usually at family events with our dad. She lives in Alaska with her daughter and husband. She has maintained a close relationship with our dad over the years, and I have only recently restored that relationship. Stephanie and I, the two oldest of four siblings, most closely [...]
Tags: Alaska, alcoholism, Amber, Antisocial Personality Disorder, family, Honesty, Idaho, Iowa, Iowa City, moral insanity, moral inventory, powerlessness, relationships, Salt Lake, Sierra Tucson, treatment for a variety of disorders, Utah, Walker Center
That was a more emotional weekend than I expected. I learned all kinds of things about my grandmother that I never knew; saw pictures of her I had never seen. It was clear from looking at them that she was as happy or happier in the last ten years of her life than [...]
Tags: depression, family, fellowship, Idaho, Idaho Falls, Unity
I spent yesterday in service to AA. I began the day at 7 AM with my friends Owen and Robert driving to Oregon to attend my first Area Assembly, the semi-annual meeting where the General Service Representatives (me) from around southern Idaho (the area) gather to conduct the business of Alcoholics Anonymous. It [...]
Tags: alcoholics anonymous, first Area Assembly, Idaho, Oregon, Owen, Robert, Service, translation equipment, Willingness
Ive been knocked out of the race
But Ill get better”
Sting, Lithium Sunset
I’m trying to give myself a break, because I had bronchitis and all. But objectively, I feel like what’s going on is clinical depression. When I got to treatment I was full on manic. That slowed down. I bounced [...]
Tags: bipolar disorder, bronchitis, clinical depression, Crystal Meth, crystal meth addiction, Early Recovery From Crystal Meth Addiction, Idaho, mental health services
But to my credit I did go to the clinic yesterday and get some antibiotics. I don’t know the medical term but my sinuses and lungs have been carefully coated with rubber cement. I wish I could say that I’m adjusting well but I’m kind of struggling. I’ve been faking it well. [...]
Tags: antibiotics, Comfort food, Early Recovery From Crystal Meth Addiction, Idaho, rubber cement, USD
so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost
that their loss is no disaster.
from One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
Yesterday I stopped by an [sic] old friend’s house to pick up the worldly goods and the junk about which I become sentimental; stuff I left in his care a couple of months ago when [...]
Tags: BMW 750Li, Eagle, Elizabeth Bishop, Idaho, Jonathan Larson
The last thing I did before I took the 14 hour bus ride to Pocatello was get high. That’s sexy isn’t it? Shooting up in the bathroom of a Greyhound station? There’s a way to meet quality friends.
So then I’m trapped on a bus for fourteen hours wishing I could fuck the [...]
Tags: Bus, Crystal Meth, Greyhound station, Hope, Idaho, Internet access, IV Drug Use, methamphetamine, Pocatello, Relapse
I’ll be gone for awhile. I’m checking in to a rehab and I expect I’ll be gone for at least a month. I just need to do something about this problem before someone does something about it for me.
I’m not happy. I’m not content. I don’t want to go on living like this. And while [...]
Tags: Addiction, Crystal Meth, Detox, Idaho, methamphetamine, Pocatello, Recovery, sober
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