YES! you are an alcoholic, go with it, but you are so much more.
The Bowery is an area of Manhattan to the east of what is now SOHO and below the East Village that was formerly a "skid row" (what is that,, is that a thing too. Yes in Seattle in the late 1800's and other logging towns where the timber came down the hills to the harbors to be loaded, wooden chutes were built and greased with fat to allow the logs to skid down. On the sides of these "skid rows" were the shacks of the often drunk loggers themselves )
The Bowery was NY city's first major N/S roadway but over the course of 300 years became the citiy's version of skid row where "bums" lived and died
I was gutted by your story - in only the best of ways. Lots of feelings and head nodding from me. I’m heartbroken about your siblings and am so, so sorry. I will have 15 years in May after trying to get sober and failing the 13 years prior. I so admire your courage and honesty. Many blessings as you trudge the road of happy destiny. 🙏❤️🙏
Thank you for you support and kind comments, Lisa. I love when a fellow writer is also in recovery. I'm glad we've met and are on this journey together!
Liz, I always appreciate your honesty and vulnerability in sharing about your experience with alcoholism. It is this type of truth-telling that is needed now more than ever.
Really enjoyed this post (googling Jack Sprat)
You don’t know the nursery rhyme about Jack Spratt, who could eat no fat and his wife could eat no lean but together they licked the plate clean?
We were more of a Dr Seuss family, Sam I am.
YES! you are an alcoholic, go with it, but you are so much more.
The Bowery is an area of Manhattan to the east of what is now SOHO and below the East Village that was formerly a "skid row" (what is that,, is that a thing too. Yes in Seattle in the late 1800's and other logging towns where the timber came down the hills to the harbors to be loaded, wooden chutes were built and greased with fat to allow the logs to skid down. On the sides of these "skid rows" were the shacks of the often drunk loggers themselves )
The Bowery was NY city's first major N/S roadway but over the course of 300 years became the citiy's version of skid row where "bums" lived and died
Ah, thank you, Rainer. That’s so interesting about Skid Row. I hadn’t known that.
Gave me much to think about. Thanks Liz
I was gutted by your story - in only the best of ways. Lots of feelings and head nodding from me. I’m heartbroken about your siblings and am so, so sorry. I will have 15 years in May after trying to get sober and failing the 13 years prior. I so admire your courage and honesty. Many blessings as you trudge the road of happy destiny. 🙏❤️🙏
Thank you for you support and kind comments, Lisa. I love when a fellow writer is also in recovery. I'm glad we've met and are on this journey together!
Liz, I always appreciate your honesty and vulnerability in sharing about your experience with alcoholism. It is this type of truth-telling that is needed now more than ever.