Category: Uncategorized

This June marks my eighth year sober. On one hand, yay! On the other hand, also yay! But there’s always a slight pinch I feel somewhere whenever I think about my anniversary. And I think that it’s because I developed a drinking problem at all. Because when I was younger, I never understood how/why people…

While I consider myself a skeptic, someone who tries to be rational and objective and who likes to rely on scientific studies to come to new conclusions (or harden up old ones!) I do think that our grandmother’s were onto something. Well, many somethings. The first is that I can remember my grandmother telling me…

There is a house, one enters it blind and comes out seeing. What is it? A school. -the ancient Sumerians. I began my university experience a bit later than most North Americans. I was 22 when I enrolled at a local community college on the foothills of the Rockies. I was fresh off the boat…

I cannot stop humming Hozier’s rendition of this Irish drinking song. The first time I heard it, I was rendered speechless which is ironic because I have been sober (from whiskey) for over six years. Whiskey was my closest friend and also my nemesis. But I started abusing it after I returned to academia back…