Ready to head to Europe this morning! England, you’ve been a lovely host… a bit wet… a lot muddy… but really pleasant as always!

#vanlife @new-nomads.com #sobertravel #sobriety

I’m going to need to wear the pants with the elastic waistband!

I’m coming to your house next Thanksgiving!

Okay folks, I’ve been extremely ill for the last week… sleeping more than awake… so I’ve missed reading the headlines… what’ve we got?
<reads news>
Oh great, now I’m really going to be sick…

Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Sometimes adversity is our greatest teacher. You had to go through what you’ve experienced to grow… in ways you didn’t expect.

Norovirus is not fun.

I’m polite about it at first…. but at my age and disposition… if you keep pressing the matter… it gets ugly… faster than you’d expect.
Also… family… the ones you’d expect to understand … are the worst.

I’m normally a non-violent person… but I do make exceptions.

That’s how we do it… one day at a time.

It’s 4 more years than I was when I got sober at 27.
At this point, not drinking isn’t something I do… it’s just who I am

One day at a Time… since 1994.

I have 31+ of sobriety I know some with more and many with less.
One thing is true about us all: every one of us started exactly where you are.
Hopefully, you’ll never forget exactly where and how you are now, and know that you never want to go back.

Also… my family is just toxic.
Since my wife and I moved to Europe, people always ask if we miss our family.
I tell them that 2,000 miles is just starting to get to be enough physical separation.

That only left them.
They weren’t the reason I drank. That’s on me. But it was a clear indication that they created the environment where my drinking “flourished”.
Go easy on yourself. Sometimes they ARE the problem. You are right where you need to be… and they are where they are..

FWIW, as late as 25+ years sober both my parents would ask if I was still sober and be surprised when I said yes.
I thought I’d been such a horrible son when I was drinking (I was), but they didn’t seem to notice (or care) that I stopped.
I checked myself to make sure I’d changed… improved. I had.

People underestimate the old AA adage: there’s only one step about drinking… and 11 steps about living.
Finding peace is the ultimate goal for me… not drinking is just the foundation for a life I don’t have to try to escape from….

Getting out of one’s self is one of the best ways to get through your own internal turmoil.
Even if it’s just going on socials, congratulating ppl for their sobriety accomplishments, it gets you away from fixating on your own shit… and that’s a very good thing.

As a person who got sober in Dallas in the 90s, I personally know so many ppl this organization helped.
I’ve not lived in DFW for a while, so I’m glad to see it alive and well… helping new generations get clean and sober.

Please don’t let me be correct!!!

They’re setting her up to be the VP for JD when they throw Trump under the bus for the Epstein fallout. When he gets 25th’ed they install her.
I’m NOT a conspiracy theorist. I just think “what’s the worst thing they can do?” and then they do it…

FWIW, I’m really enjoying your court mandated walk through sobriety.
When you’re done, it’s going to be interesting to see if you go back to how you were before.
I doubt it. Clarity of mind and body changes you.
What are your predictions?

My smell-o-vision is sending me hints of cinnamon and spruce…

Drinking dreams are fantastic windows into how your brain works! I’ve got 31+yrs sober and they creep in every now and then.
Look at what’s going on in your life. Examine what needs attention.
They’re a “check engine” light for your sobriety!

The Lies We Tell Ourselves Right Before We Do Something Stupid They work well because we want to believe them

Oh now.. I have told myself a few good ones!
The results are predictable - even if I could not believe they would be!
Lying to myself is the easiest thing to do... I believe me!

#sobriety #recovery #soberliving #relapse

Now we’re getting ads on paid Netflix plans.
I hate this new world order.
The constant whoring is getting old.

I really hate it that technology is getting worse every day. Are we that lazy as a species that we accept that poor quality is acceptable?
The keyboard on my phone works 60% worse than it did only weeks ago. This is a known issue… and yet no one fixes it because they know we just adapt to it.

It can’t take you anywhere you don’t want to go!

Check your ticket!

Get on the crazy train!

We’ve got snacks!

Sanity is overrated at times.

(Take a look at what’s making you crazy and give it a name. Define it and you take its power away. We’re all afraid of the dark, so turn the lights on)

Do as I say… not as I do…

Going to be on my headstone

I just get foggy… like I can see the concepts in my head… but I can only just make them out without the details.

I’m not sure my head works like other people… it’s a chaotic, rusty old filing cabinet with sticky drawers and old yellowing folders of bits of crinkled up papers.

#notliketheotherkids