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New Terms, Longtime Conditions
Someone I Love Dearly (SILD) is a heroin addict who has recently entered treatment for the first time, and this has thrust me into a parallel universe where we all have new identities, distortions of...
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The Risk That Never Ends
Someone I Love Dearly (SILD) is a heroin addict who has recently entered treatment for the first time. Two driving motivations are SILD’s fear of overdose, and SILD’s observation that “If I OD no one...
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Feedback Therapy
Someone I Love Dearly (SILD) is a newly-revealed heroin addict and I am a newly-discovered codependent and in dealing with all of this I find it very lucky that I love so much aggressive and...
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Better? Worse?
Someone I Love Dearly (SILD) is a heroin addict who has recently entered treatment. SILD is doing great, on a tremendous voyage of self-discovery and new beginnings. Meanwhile I seem to be in the...
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Health and Trust
You know the saying. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me (oh, I dunno, ballpark estimate) nine thousand eight hundred and seventy two times and you must be my addict. When...
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Dirty Chips
Someone I Love Dearly (SILD) is a heroin addict — now just about 60 days sober. Like all addiction milestones, this one is important, reassuring, bittersweet, and just possibly a meaningless sham....
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The Long Plateau
It’s kinda like living in The Lost World, a previously unknown universe on a long, high plateau that ends in steep cliffs. Someone I Love Dearly (SILD) is a heroin addict, just about 60 days into...
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Peace in Thoughtlessness
The last few weeks, I have struggled to put two thoughts together, and this turns out to be a good thing. At first I thought it was a new stage of PTSD, my unfolding reaction to the fact that Someone I...
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My Dad Behind the Wheel
I didn’t know my father well. He died last year (after several years of being mostly gone due to strokes). He wasn’t an easy person to understand. In the decades that I knew him, I could count on one...
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And Then The Doorbell Rang…
I have spent my adult life deeply agnostic and religion-avoidant, with two exceptions. My first summer in college, I went through dark times, and at some point decided it would help if I had faith. I...
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Tapping My Inner Hermit
I have always liked being alone, and I am good at it. The one aspect of being a parent that was tough on me was all those years with so little alone time. These last few weeks, recuperating from...
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Experience, Strength, Hope as of 2013
A recent Daily Prompt asked for reactions about public speaking. Overall, I enjoy it – provided I get to think about what I will say, and test it aloud in advance. Recently I gave a short talk that was...
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