Tag Archives: sobriety
Filling the Empty Space
Life requires more than a series of projects to keep us busy – Stephen Elliot Monotony and sameness are a rule for most of us, rather than an exception, although I’m sure we all picture “others” who don’t have to … Continue reading
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Working A Day Job
I talk a lot about my opinions on working a day job, i.e. a 9 – 5, when your heart is elsewhere. Many people have to work a day job they don’t like. I can list a slew of friends … Continue reading
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There Is No Map
Do you ever get the feeling nobody has a map, that we’re all floundering, grasping at straws? It feels like time is slipping away from me, that there isn’t enough of it to go around. I know that everything I … Continue reading
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An Artist’s Prison is Limbo
I found out about Joe Loya, a local writer, through a librarian who sent a link to his website a while back. I was poking around, reading his essays, and I stumbled across one called Life After Hard Time. First off, … Continue reading
Addiction Takes One More at 27
I’ve just read Russell Brand’s moving tribute to Amy Winehouse. It resonated with me for many reasons. I have a couple of friends who struggle with addiction and I have my own personal stories as well (another time, another place). … Continue reading
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Drugs and Creativity: A Myth Perpetuated by the Masses
There is an assumption floating around. An assumption that creative people need to do a lot of drugs. But (enter celebrity name) did drugs and was fine, you say. OK. There are some people that defy logic. Like Keith Richards … Continue reading
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