“Sometimes all we can do is howl.”
alcoholism
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Brigid, Magdalene, My Mother, and Me
Carmel Mc Mahon contemplates the legacy of trauma passed down through generations of Irish women.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Breaking the Family Silence on Alcoholism
Alicia Lutes contemplates her family’s history of addiction, her mother’s failing liver, and the effect it’s all had on her generation.
Posted inReading List
Addiction, Disorder, Disease, Call It What You Want: A Reading List on Alcoholism
A reading list on alcoholism, for both the hopeful and the cynical.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
On Alcoholism, Sobriety, and Running Toward a Future
“…no one sober knows if they’re going to be sober forever. It was a forgiving moment, and it humbled me.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
My Brother, My Self
In this personal essay, Katie Prout tries to untangle the story of her brother’s complicated, life-long battle with alcoholism against the backdrop of her family’s history of addiction.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
My Brother, My Self
Katie Prout tries to untangle the story of her brother’s complicated, life-long battle with alcoholism against the backdrop of her family’s history of addiction.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
My Brother, My Self
Katie Prout tries to untangle the story of her brother’s complicated, life-long battle with alcoholism against the backdrop of her family’s history of addiction.
Posted inProfiles & Interviews
5 Questions for Kristi Coulter About Writing, Humor, and Getting Sober
“If I couldn’t find humor in sobriety, I probably wouldn’t make it.”
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Trying to Kill the Want
I was a grown, multi-degreed, loved, moneyed, professionally powerful woman who did not have the strength to wait one-third of an hour before having a drink.