December 2013

You won’t find rainbows in the bottom of a glass

While Sinatra’s lonely saloon song plays, an old-timer wonders how he picked up after 39 years

It’s been more than a year since I took the bus out of Pennsylvania back up to my home in New York. I remember that ride very well. It was my first look at the real world after going to a 30-day treatment program. I was beginning my second round of sobriety. It all seemed so amazing, for my first round lasted an uninterrupted 39 years.

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