Good idea on the sci-fi and chocolate! I also found myself going to bed early to get away from the cravings. I’ll just tell you my experience about going to a psychiatrist or your GP and asking for a referral because you want to stop drinking: all I got was very positive feedback. It’s not for everyone- but if you…

Impressive and congrats! If I can find my energy and passion for my work again, that could help me tremendously (and may help salvage my business). Meanwhile I think I’m going to do what I’ve done on the few nights a week that I was “good” by not drinking, which is going to bed at 7 PM with a scifi book and some…

Hey so I’m sober 10 months now. I was at the point where I was basically going to be getting divorced, lose my job, and if I’m honest, die. All of these YMMV, I’m just one person, etc. Anyway couple of things-

Day 6 for me as well. It hasn’t been as bad as I thought but I have the weekend coming up...and I manage a bar. The past few nights at work I’ve had customers buy me my usual shots and I thank them and immediately find someone to sneak them to. Just stick to your guns. You stopped for a reason, always remember that.…

We might be the same person. Except I drank an entire case of Heineken and chain smoked half a pack last night. I feel you girl. All the hugs.

He’s actually improved dramatically.

A high IQ and good grades are, like, decent indicators that you’re smarter than people with a low IQ and bad grades.

I’ve attempted it, and I think the people who are into it are cray cray.

I agree. I was disappointed none of the actors got any nominations.

Where is the “Best Faye Resnick in a Limited Series or Movie” award?

You talk about how difficult holidays are. My chaplain, sober for 30 years, has an interesting thought for that. Say it’s New Year’s Eve and it falls on a Thursday. In order to head off the holiday panic, he says to himself, “It’s a Thursday and I don’t drink on Thursdays....” In other words, focusing his mind on how…

Thank you. This comes on day 6 for me and 2 days before a business trip that I will need to travel for, and fear the social pressures that come along with it.

Needs more Fargo! So glad to see Kirsten Dunst up there at least. Her performance was outstanding.

sooooooooooooo happy for ‘the americans’

And RuPaul FINALLY got a nomination for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program!

I’m sitting here hungover, and this popped up in my FB feed. I’m looking at having to close my business that I’ve had for nearly 10 years and while I’ve blamed everyone else possible for why I have screwed it up, it’s me. And beer. And I know it. I too have left myself “drunk me” messages to “sober me” (in my notes on…

I had a habit as a young drunk woman where I would “take breaks” from drinking. They were normally a few days or a week, the longest was a month. No one ever questioned them, everyone around me understood the “I am taking a break to give me body a rest” reason. Some people also assumed I was taking a break because I…

I will miss this column very much. New to sobriety and found it immensely helpful. Thanks for even having a column that addresses what many often consider but don’t act on.

To be fair, if anyone comes off badly in this, it’s Foer, who always struck me as Zack Braff with a half read copy of Rings of Saturn conspicuously visible in his bag.

You think that’s bad, imagine being in a classroom taught by ths guy. He literally once passed around a green military jacket he wore all the time on which he had replaced the original plastic buttons with big round wooden ones. He wanted us to understand his appreciation for fine detail & sensory stimulus. So we kind…