New Adventures

The Adventures of Sober Guy says it all. Tongue in cheek, hat in hand and all dressed up with somewhere to go. Lately, I've been feeling like doing a bit of writing again...for me and for anyone who is incredibly bored. Much has changed since I wrote those initial posts...but one thing has remained constant. That constant is sobriety-clean time call it what you will. For reasons both tangible and not-so-much, I haven't had a drink or a drug since July 22nd 2008.

How has it been done you ask? Well, I have taken some suggestions and others I have neatly flushed (and then revisited). Some days have been easy, some have not been so easy. Another common thread that flows through this tangled web is life...I have been allowed to live this long. Some folks have not...I am thinking of some of them right now. All of them. One in particular, my grandmother, stands out. I miss her kindness, her love, her stories and her banana bread. She was a great woman and continues to inspire me even though she is no longer here.

When I had originally started this blog, it was called Dear, The Universe. The new title came about the other day as I was pondering the blogs of others and what I would blog on about. I felt that it had to be of some use to someone in some way. The answer came back that it just might be useful to me...which is of course, someone; someone I value much more than I once did. Do I have something to say? Hell yeah I do. We all do. We are all worth it. No matter where we have gone or what we have done we are all worth it.

The human experience is a hard thing to pin down.

I am going to make a more than half-measured attempt to chronicle my life in a way that allows someone struggling with anything to let it go...to stop fighting anyone and anything.