I have had the pleasure of working with Dina Hannigan in the Needham youth field hockey program here in our town of Needham and getting to know her over the past few years. My daughter, Parker, plays field hockey in second grade and I am one of the youth coaches. Dina has been a great supporter of me in my sobriety and is a wonderful influence to much of the youth in our town. She has done so much for girls sports and continues to reimagine and redevelop the programs for our

"Don't read the reviews," they say. Especially the negative ones. There will be trolls. There will be people who bring the negativity. You cannot win over everyone. I knew that going into this process, and I continue to understand that still to this day. But it doesn't make it any easier when you read something that is very hurtful or that undermines everything you believe your book stands for. I need to remind myself of my mission though. And maybe I need to listen to that a

I think it's easy for me to forget what it's like in the early days of sobriety. What white knuckling it to get through the day is like when you are 3 days sober. 7 days. 28 days. I am grateful that I actually am able to go back and read exactly how I was feeling on day 3. Day 7. Day 28. And you can do that too - just go back to the early days of this blog and you will fall right back into my headspace. You will see what a mess I was back then. And how far I have come. It's g

At Colby College, January is a month long mini semester where the freshmen and winter athletes stay on campus for 30 days and take one class. Anyone can choose to stay if they want, but for the most part the campus is pretty quiet. It's called Janplan. When I went to Colby, I always loved this month. I looked forward to it, and I stayed for Janplan for all four years. I stuck around mostly because my parents got divorced after my freshmen year and I never wanted to go back ho

This past year, well it was a good year. I feel like I spend most of my days in a state of self-reflection, so to think back on the entire 365 days as a whole is no different than what I would do on any other morning. Overall, I never felt like I was white knuckling my way through sobriety this past year, and I felt a bit more confident on all fronts. Each and every holiday no longer felt like a milestone moment in the sober-sphere because I had been there/done that in 2021.