Image credit: Photo by Eternal ☼ Sunshine on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons It was raining the night I first kissed my husband. The wind was hissing and howling through the bare branches of the trees, rattling the last of the dead leaves still clinging to their posts. Before we kissed, we twined our hands [...]
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That’s What You Get
Image credit: Photo by Rakka on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I love House, not just because it's a clever, funny show, but because it does such a fabulous job of capturing some of the intimacy problems related to addiction. Regardless of the substance, addiction causes general problems in relationships, as active addicts shut the [...]
I Am Not Falling in Love with Barack Obama
This post is the eighth in a (slowly developing) series onhow I came to be where I am around the current election,and the fourth post about the candidates themselves. Image credit: Photo byJessica DeWinter on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons A friend of Mark's and mine fell in love recently. You know that intoxicating feeling of [...]
Confused Recovery Nerds on Hancock
Will Smith's Hancocktells us we deserve better. Mark and I went out to see Hancock last night. We were really looking forward to this one: July 4th weekend opening, Will Smith, superhero antics and alcoholism. It was slated to have everything! And the first half of the movie delivered on its blockbuster promises. Will Smith [...]
Recovery Nerds on The Incredible Hulk
Whew! Summer has its plusses and minuses. Among the plusses: Summer movie season. Among the minuses: Kids out of school means no time to blog about summer movie season. This past weekend, Mark and I left our kids in the care of our wonderful babysitter, who, next to The Junky's Wife is the love of [...]
Recovery Nerds on Iron Man
It's my favorite time of year: summer movie season! My husband and I love few things more than a summer blockbuster. This year, to ensure that we didn't miss a spectacular moment and yet had a smooth decision making process, we each gave numerical ratings to the hottest upcoming movies and tallied up the averages [...]
Lost Dollar
Image credit:Painting by Lynda Abromeit With a special thanks toThe Junky's Wifefor using her goddess-likeimage search skills to find it. Yesterday, my daughter found a dollar on the sidewalk near our house while she was out walking with my husband. She came bounding up to me and said, "Look, Daddy and I found a dollar [...]
My Type: Addicts and Peter Pan
When I was a little girl, I fell in love with a boy, and that love has never left me. I may say there was a boy in junior high school who was my first love, but there was someone even before him, someone whose eyes I've seen twinkling from the face of every man [...]
I Heart Hillary
I've been threatening to post about this for months, and I've finally gone and done it: I've got a post up on my other blog about why I'm voting for Hillary Clinton to be the next President of the United States. So, go ahead. Find out why I think Hillary kicks ass. I'll give you [...]
The Advent of Ads in My Room
While I was away, I made a little behind the scenes change and added advertisements to A Room of Mama's Own. I know, it does seem a little crass to paper my walls with marketing materials, but you know I did agonize over it. Let me tell you what tipped the scales (other than the [...]
