friendship

To my alcoholic friend

January 14, 2012

Dearest Friend, I have known you for almost two years now and although I don’t want to do it, I am getting ready to let you go. You have pleaded with me in the past to stick by you and thanked me when I did. But that is not enough any longer. I’ve become the [...]

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Pick up the phone

January 7, 2012

Somebody said something to me on the phone an hour ago that she didn’t mean, and I knew immediately that it wasn’t about me, that she was in some kind of profound emotional pain. Years ago (and tomorrow, if I take a drink), I’d rip into her about “who does she think she is all up [...]

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