Holy cow, I’m still alive guys. The space bar on my key board stopped working so I took a long hiatus from blogging, but I’m very much still in the game! Drinking is not even something that occurs to me to do anymore. Well almost never, anyway. I must be up front with the fact …
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Day 38: Celebration In the Belly of the Beast
It’s a Monday afternoon, and I’m about to go to my BJJ class and then play the first sand volleyball game of our new season. I play in a few coed leagues per year, and this will be a new 4 v 4 league at Grand Sands, which I have never played at before but …
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Day 32: Overwhelming Positive Response
It’s a Tuesday morning and the second day of Fall. I took the day off work to get some things done. Right now I’m posted up on a comfy chair at beautiful Summit Park in Blue Ash taking care of business. I went public with my decision to quit drinking via a Facebook post Sunday …
Day 30: First Month Reflections
It’s hard to escape the adage that you should do what makes you happy, or that the goal of life is to pursue happiness. I’ve never really liked that idea, for a lot of reasons. Don’t get me wrong – I like being happy and it’s definitely preferable to being miserable, but I think that …
Day 28: Every Day I See My Dream
This week I gained a new reason for not drinking – a group of friends and I were accepted to run the Big Sur Marathon in April 2020! Race day is only 30 weeks away, and the last respectable marathon I ran was in 2013. I have run a few since that time, but it …
Day 23: Reflections
Hey all. It’s a Sunday morning and it has been beautiful outside all week. I took advantage and got some things done, but not as much as I wanted to and actually ended up wasting a good bit of time this week getting sidetracked. One of my first posts was called “Being on my Purpose” …
21 Days Make a Habit
They say that 21 days make a habit. If that’s true, then building a habit happens way quicker than you would think. On day one, the span of 3 weeks seems like a long time, but the time floats by faster than you think, especially when you keep busy for those 3 weeks. That being …
Day 20: Make Like Picture
Now that I’m fully committed to this lifestyle, at least for the foreseeable future (definitely until May), I need to make sure I don’t turn into a total lame since the bulk of my social life has revolved around drinking for most of my adult life. I am comfortable with shaving off some relationships that …
Day 16: Temptations
It’s a Sunday night, and I have all of the windows open in my house so I can hear the crickets and so that the house feels like the outside air. This weekend has felt like Fall weather and I am loving it. I had a few weak moments (okay, a full weak evening) but …
Day 12: Building a New Life
I think that the decision to quit the booze would have been more difficult if I had nothing meaningful to replace it with. Like if on Saturday nights I sat at home with an endless stream of TV dinners for the rest of my life, it would be very tempting to go back to the …
Iron Sharpens Iron 