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Book Review: Call Me Zelda, by Erika Robuck
Filed under: Alcoholism

I first encountered Erika’s work when I read and reviewed her second novel, Hemingway’s Girl, for Shelf Awareness. Like Hemingway’s Girl, Call Me Zelda is rich with incredibly well-research historical detail, using the framework of history to build a carefully imagined story–this time centering on …
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my last day in durango.
Filed under: Alcoholism

All day today I’d planned on going to the gym with Margaret, because my “Welcome to Durango” packet had included a free pass and I needed the exercise. But after many hours at home pretending to be a writer while actually wasting vast amounts of time online, Margaret showed up and we decided that ha …
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Hidden Struggles
Filed under: Alcoholism

Written in a moment of “I just want to be alone, I want to sleep, I’m so tired” . . . so on and so on Words escape me as I try to write. I wish sometimes I could write my pain, my sorrow away. If I could only describe in words exactly what I was feeling. Maybe then would I be able to write it all aw …
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Ideas for Coping
Filed under: Alcoholism

If you’re like most people on this planet, you have hard times now and then. If not, you either lead a very privileged life or are some kind of robot who has successfully infiltrated human society. For the normal people I offer a few hints and tips for dealing with the shitty hand you get dealt ever …
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A Short History of American Alcoholism

This is a March of Times 1946 film outlining the problem of alcoholism and the only treatment of that era – Sanitariums, Temperance, Prohibition and Alcoholi…

 

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