<h2>Watch as my life spirals <em>into</em> control</h2> Not really being into Halloween makes it kinda easy for me to stay in. I was invited to a couple of parties, but decided to not go. Rather my intentions for today and tonight were to stay in and write. Instead I've found myself sleep...
<h2>Watch as my life spirals <em>into</em> control</h2> My little run in with that recent non-alcohol induced hangover reminded me of a challenge I took back in 1999. I was on a trip to Wilmington visiting friends at the annual W.E. Fest. It's a week of music and partying and on this pa...
<h2>Watch as my life spirals <em>into</em> control</h2> I woke up with a wicked hangover today. No, no ... I did not fall off the wagon. Instead I had a bit too many sweet beverages last night. As much as alcohol will dehydrate you causing massive headaches, the sugar and carbonation re...
<h2>Watch as my life spirals <em>into</em> control</h2> Today I noticed that more and more people keep saying things like, "If you were drinking I'd suggest we go here, but since you're not we'll go to this other place instead." I don't know whether to find it amusing or insulting. Are th...
<h2>I'm so very proud of my dear friend Lisa</h2> Some time ago she sold selling her co-op and wrangled together all sorts of legalities to buy the music school where she had been teaching....
<h2>Watch as my life spirals <em>into</em> control</h2> OK talk about temptation. I'm sitting here getting psyched to go see The Fixx tonight and the guy who got me the ticket sent me an email. Before the show he'll be at a bar called No Idea. They have this special where basically if yo...
<h2>Watch as my life spirals <em>into</em> control</h2> I found myself inexplicably in a real pissy mood today. I really don't know why. I had a very good night last night. Plus a friend emailed me with an interesting invitation for tomorrow night. I could not resist the opportunity see...
<h2>Watch as my life spirals <em>into</em> control</h2> I got in a little while ago from celebrating the official Grand Opening of my good friend Lisa's music school in Hackensack. After a couple of hours chatting with Lisa and her family at the school, we went to Lua in Hoboken for dinne...
There's amusing and then there's downright freaky. This fortune was just so oddly specific in its details....
<h2>Watch as my life spirals <em>into</em> control</h2> Not much to report today other than to say it's a good thing the weather's been so shitty. Not much of a desire to be outside. Even if it is just to walk to this bar or that. So I spent the day working in my office, got home late and...
<h2>Watch as my life spirals <em>into</em> control</h2> Oh ... tonite will be my first trip to an actual bar since starting this challenge (Ha! thirteen days out of the bars ... who'da thunk it?)....
<h2>Watch as my life spirals <em>into</em> control</h2> Name change (again) ... Yes I decided that the original name of Thirty Day Reverse Bender, which sounded clever at first, simply did not capture the nature of what this truly is. A reverse bender would be the opposite of a bender or ...
<h2>Time to find a Zen moment in the madness</h2> Oh if only I were stoned right now. Instead, I will shut my door and my lights and just drift away for a little while....
<h2>Watch as my life spirals <em>into</em> control</h2> Today I was reminded of the night I ran into my friends Madeline and Rob outside of Kevin St. James in NYC. It was about 6:30 and I was walking home from work and my head was loopy from the lack of food. I was really looking forward ...
<h2>Watch as my life spirals <em>into</em> control</h2> Tonite I almost got run down by Chris Noth (Law & Order, Sex & the City/Owner of the Cutting Room). In that split second, a curious thought crossed my mind. Had I been out drinking tonight I would not have been walking down that part...
<h2>Watch as my life spirals <em>into</em> control</h2> Courtney asked me today how I'm doing with my 30 days. I said it's been kinda rough ... more than any other time I did this. It shouldn't be this hard at just 9 days. Maybe in a week or so I should be freakin' out. Like the last time...
<h2>Watch as my life spirals <em>into</em> control</h2> Tonight I went to hang out with Lisa for a while. I was supposed to go over there for dinner, but went to my sister's house to eat. By the time I got to Lisa's, I was stuffed to the brim. Still I promised her we'd get ice cream. So w...