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Like not having the second martini, and grabbing water and crackers instead. Figuring out I'm hungry - don't drink, EAT.The water is good and cold - the crackers are multigrain and salty and good. I...

I get too tense if I think I can't have a drink. That's why I got so messed up on wine last Saturday, why I pounded wine like a madwoman. Why I lost last Sunday in self-induced sickness.This week...

Saturday evening was a bust. Sunday was one of the worst hangovers I've had in a long long time. I'm done again - this time there is no "just one". It's not worth it when it morphs into 10, like it...

Hey, Friday night didn't faze me at all. Day 4, over and out. Now today I have a funeral to attend, and a concert in a bar this evening. All bridges to cross when I get to them and my confidence is...

It was touch and go there for a while last evening. I discovered Gedny's Zinger dill pickles are fantastic for stomping cravings; they're wickedly spicy-hot and burn like a shot of cheap whiskey on...

I felt the tension mounting before I even got off work. That heavy spring coiled tight just beneath my sternum, that only the after-work stiff drink ever loosens up completely. To distract myself, I...

My parents cocktails of choice: Dirty gin martini, made 3 to 1 for mom. Dad usually had Manhattans, or whiskey on the rocks. This was an every day, after work ritual, The Cocktail Hour, or as I call...

I've been trying to recall the first time I tried a sip of alcoholic beverage. I'm pretty sure it was at a family picnic, or up at the cottage on some holiday, probably the 4th of July. It could have...