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When travelling across time zones, I’d force myself to stay up late or wake up early, resetting my internal clock to local standard time. It was our first vacation in a year’s time. It was on our last night in Colorado that she fell asleep at the dinner table. It was six o’clock, Colorado time, which meant bed time back home.

When it comes to getting sober, willingness is the key. Before I became willing to get sober, I had no true chance

It’s the hex of grandma’s As I thought about this year’s talk, still symptomatic, I began to feel dangerous, willing to take the microphone and tell it like it really is. I shared in a general way what it used to be like, what happened, and what it is like now. Whether it’s suffering through the symptoms or giving teenage boys a life lesson: you never know when the fog will lift, when the light bulb will go off, when the seed you planted will start to grow.

I was writing that script, all right. In my nine months of writing and pitching the script in Hollywood, I wrote 54 pages. : in the nine months of writing my aborted script, I thought about it endlessly. And what’s more, the urge to drink and use, the urge to lose inhibitions and escape from self, can be supplanted with an expansive creative endeavor.