Here's a quick update for those interested in the story of Alex Barton, the autistic kindergartener who was "voted out" of his class. Last week, the TC Palm reported that the case was still under investigation by the district and that teacher Wendy Portillo was still on temporary administrative assignment away from children until the [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2008’
The Room where Addiction and Recovery Meet
Image credit: Photo by vk-red on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I have discovered that there is one room in every house that is the nexus of both the spiritual and the corporeal, of cleanliness and filth, of addiction and recovery. That room is the bathroom. Yes, the bathroom. My husband and I were remarking [...]
Withdrawal
Image credit: Photo by stoichiometry on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I remember watching TV when I was about seven or eight and seeing what must have been an after school special in which a character stopped drinking alcohol and got "the DTs." His eyes bulged in panic as he tried to swat invisible bugs [...]
David Duchovny Fakes Sex Addiction?
Well, The Discovering Alcoholic and Stagnant Artist both jumped on news of former X-Files star David Duchovny's entry into treatment for sex addiction. Both e-mailed it to me this morning well before my Google Alerts (which are set up to send me any news of David Duchovny's sex life, of course). Duchovny and his wife, [...]
Pornography: The Sweat Shop Secret
Image credit: Photo bythegreenpages on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons People (particularly women) who work in the porn industry are being abused and exploited. Think about that statement. (You're already framing your argument, agreeing or disagreeing, aren't you?) Now think about this one: People (particularly women) who work in the garment industry are being abused and [...]
Being Still
Image credit: Photo by h.koppdelaney on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My mind races. Often it races at the same brick wall again and again. I was sitting down at the computer earlier trying to compose a post about something I'm working through in my recovery. My mind was spinning and spinning on the topic, [...]
The Ghost Image
While this post doesn't contain any sexually explicit content, I do describe my feelings the first time my husband and I made love, which may be triggering to some addicts. Image credit: Photo byTheremina on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons This morning when I woke up, my husband was getting dressed. I leaned on one elbow [...]
The Great Interview Experiment
Image credit: Photo byÐIÐËO on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons Recently, I decide to participate in The Great Interview Experiment, a cool project hosted by Neil at Citizen of the Month. (I wish I had thought of it!) The idea is to have bloggers interview one another, so that we can all have our moment in [...]
Ahhh!
Image credit: Photo byfofurasfelinas on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons Yes! The kids are back in school, people! You know, I had all these wonderful plans for how I was going to use their school time to catch up on my blogging -- visit all of your blogs, answer your (long postponed) questions, write some posts [...]
No Excuses for Me
Image credit: Photo bykasiaeryn on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons If there's a word in all the English language that I absolutely hate, it's the word "excuses." When I hear that word, I cringe and wave my hands in the air and make inarticulate sounds of dismay -- like "Uh ba ba ba!" -- to ward [...]
