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Nothing is more alienating than being somewhere full of people and realising, perhaps mid-conversation, that what they talk about belongs to a totally different plan of existence than the one in which you exist – Omar Cherif WHEN YOU DON’T FIT IN I’e always loved the expression of being a square peg in a round…
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I chose sober because I wanted a better life. I stay sober because I got one. -Anonymous I know this title is going to upset a lot of recovering alcoholics, but this is my truth. As of this writing, I have been alcohol free for 500 days. This is not my first abstinence from alcohol,…
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I became a mom to my daughter at 21. From then onwards, it felt like I had to move through life at warp speed. Always in motion, always accomplishing something, always doing better. Every day was a mad scramble to make it through the self designated to-do list that I felt obligated to complete. Every…
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The Fatherhood Role My son is three months old already. Somehow, that happened in the blink of an eye. I am forever grateful to have him. I’ve wanted a lot of things in my life, but being a Dad was at the top of the list. I also have a 13-year-old step daughter. As of…
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We’ve all been there. We’ve all been at our wits’ end. We saved money for a trip and then our truck needed repairs. We spent three hours shovelling snow off the driveway just for it to snow twice as much the next day. We’ve been training for a marathon for six months and we sprain our…