Category: New Mexico
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I spent all of yesterday sick and in quite a bit of pain. I’m feeling better today, not completely back to normal, but good enough to run some errands and go grocery shopping with my wife. We stopped by my favorite little indoor produce stand too. I only needed some jalapenos this time so I…
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Last night I ate a lot of cherry tomatoes with my evening meal. Usually there wouldn’t be anything special about that but these came from our own garden. There’s just something special about eating food you’ve grown yourself. Food you’ve watered, weeded around, patiently waited for, and finally get to enjoy. After living in apartments…
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Recently in Albuquerque, a city not far from where we live, a man reportedly pulled a gun on a Catholic priest after getting mad over the priest’s public support for religious freedom and his wife arguing with the priest. According to local news reports the disagreement centered on the priest’s support for the construction of…
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What’s your favorite ways to deal with stress? Would you be willing to share them? What about those times when you’re way more stressed out than you realize until your body starts letting you know with pain? I think that’s exactly what happened to me. I wrote recently about how the multifocal PVCs that first…
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I write a lot about how happy I am with my life these days, and I am happy. Very happy. But that doesn’t mean I don’t still struggle because I do. The last few days have been hard. We had to spend a lot of money replacing the entire roof on our home. Considering we…
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I’ve written a lot recently about how I’m happier than I’ve ever been before. I even made a video talking about it. (I’ll try to do more videos, that’s just unfamiliar territory for me) But there’s another thing going on too that I don’t think I’ve mentioned yet. It’s that feeling people sometimes describe as…
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I remember when I was in the middle of detox, there were times I was too sick to read. So, I’m gonna make some videos for people who are in that place. Hopefully, I’ll get better as I go along.
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I haven’t been writing as much lately obviously. Life has been really busy lately but really good and full too! We’ve been settling into our forever home, and moving doesn’t really end when the boxes are unpacked. There are gardens to tend, little projects to finish, things to clean, organize, repair, and improve on. Every…
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I can honestly say with certainty that I’ve never been happier in my life than I am right now. And that scares me a little in a strange way. I’m sober and clean, living in New Mexico, a state I’ve always dreamed of calling my home. My wife and I have moved into our forever…
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For whatever reason I’ve seen more people giving up in the last two weeks than I have since I began recovery myself. Those of us in recovery communities see it happen, and it’s heartbreaking because we’re mostly powerless to stop it. We can’t force anybody to get clean and sober and we can’t force anybody…