Another Sobriety Blog is Born
Had I written the inaugural post for this blog a couple of days ago, it would have been one word long: Help. Had I written it a week ago, it would have been slightly longer. Something like: I don't always avoid drunkenness. But when I do, it's because I only have one drink an hour. Every hour. Six hours a night. Had I written it two weeks ago, it might have been an accounting of the bargaining I did with God while sitting in a port-a-john the morning before getting ready to run a marathon. "Just let me run this race the way I want to, and I'll quit drinking. Well, I'll quit drinking whiskey. I mean, on weekdays." But I'm writing it today, 21 hours after my last drink and with a fuller awareness than I've had in a long, long time of how badly I need to stop. Because since that bargaining session, I have not gone 24 hours without booze. Because in the last week, in addition to slowly sustaining a perfect buzz with five or six drinks a night...