Susannah’s 2018 Spring and Summer Reading List
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Tag Archives: alcoholism
They Love Me, They Love Me Not
A therapist I once had, called it the vacillation dance, when one minute, you’re the toast of someone’s life, the next, toast. She explained it as having intimacy issues. My explanation rang truer…it was just plain, fucked up behavior. The … Continue reading
Posted in alcohol, friendship, humanity, humor, Love, men
Tagged alcoholism, dancing, I Won't Dance Oscar Hammerstein 1934, Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen, withholding love
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Back In Step
I’ve been a member of Al-Anon, a 12-Step program for those affected by the aftershocks of alcohol, for 12 years. I stopped attending meetings due to my hearing loss, but two weeks ago, went back. It was the best decision … Continue reading
Posted in alcohol, Books, Faith, Family, friendship, grace, Gratitude, humanity, humor, Love, New York City, parents, words
Tagged 12 Step programs, Al-Anon Family Groups, alcoholism, One day at a time
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Genes
It might have been easier to write about levis, but here it goes. Sometimes I see mothers with their babies sporting the same face…or a dad and his son who walk alike, long legs, just in two different sizes. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in alcohol, Connecticut, Family, History, Home, humor
Tagged alcoholism, DNA, Looking at the good, Remembering our parents
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A Connecticut Christmas
I’ve been thinking a lot about my mother who loved Christmas. I always feel her over my shoulder whenever buying gifts, since I inherited my holiday leanings from her. Our house could have been a Hallmark ad the way she … Continue reading
Posted in alcohol, animals, Connecticut, Family, History, humor, Uncategorized, Women and men
Tagged alcoholism, Christmas memories, Dysfunctional homes, Frank Sinatra records, tree trimming
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Helping Someone You Hate
I realize hate’s a strong word and whatever happened to, Love thy neighbor? It’s in the back of the closet right next to honor thy father and thy mother. Yeah well, both those ships have sadly sailed, though the first … Continue reading
Posted in Home, humor, New York City, parents, women, writing
Tagged 12 Step programs, alcoholism, Love Thy Neighbor, rent stabilization, self taught
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Last Call
I have stopped drinking, for how long, I don’t know. But having that alcoholic gene passed down from my parents, those yield signs are flashing. Dave Attell, a comic I love says, he drinks to quiet the voices. My father … Continue reading
Posted in alcohol, Health, humor, New York City, women
Tagged alcoholism, Bill Hicks, going on the wagon, growing up in an alcoholic home, One day at a time
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Feeling Unlovable
My dear, sweet, late mother would always say, how unlovable I am. It was an awful thing to tell a child. I grew up thinking this was true, and that’s why men cheated, lied and eventually left. After years of … Continue reading
Posted in Family, food, Home, humor, Love, men, parents, Women and men, words
Tagged alcoholism, bad parenting, Feeling unworthy, growing up in an alcoholic home, low self-esteem
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Hi, I Used To Be Sam Shepard
The effects of alcohol special or otherwise, knows no bounds. I was coming out of my building when a man was exiting the cafe paralleling my front door slamming into me full force. He hit my nose so hard I … Continue reading
Posted in Beauty, Cinema, media, men, New York City, writing
Tagged alcoholism, DWIs, Jessica Lange, playwrighting, Sam Shepard, The Sam Book Bruce Weber, The Upper East Side NYC
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In An Alcoholic Home
Both my parents were drinkers, and not of the modest variety. My father died of cirrhosis of the liver at forty, while my mother, with ice tinkling in her glass, terrorized everyone and everything in her path. Even the goldfish … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Health, Home, humor, kids, modeling, parents
Tagged 12 Step programs, Al-Anon, alcoholism, growing up in an alcoholic home, liver disease
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