blissful sober moments

Ah, I've neglected my new and lovely blog for too long.  Why suddenly resume posting?  I was riding the D train over the Manhattan bridge and saw the most spectacular sunset...EVER!  Really, it was breathtaking. It was another of those moments that I would have not been able to fully experience, fully enjoy, had I still been living as an active alcoholic.  Then I wondered, "What else have I recently experienced or accomplished that I would have missed in my pinot-noir-colored days?"  So here's a list for this year so far:  

Ran three half-marathons (two in sub-zero temperatures), taken a flower-box design class, created two blogs, tried out four different therapists, learned to cook with bok choi, finally had a movie date with my husband since we had our son… who is now five, received a great job offer (but declined), helped my husband go back to school for an amazing degree, walked over the brooklyn bridge with a friend, discovered a passion for botanical photography, grieved the loss of my very beloved grandmother, helped a friend with a barnes and noble reading event for her new book, discovered purple basil,  launched a fund-raiser via a marathon for my little cousin who is sick, lost eight pounds, bailed on a meditation teacher training workshop without guilt, filled dozens of journals, ended an unhealthy friendship, took care of an injury (threw out my hip doing a crazy ballet move while home on a sick day), ran 22 miles from brooklyn to central park, spent a day in the city with my three oldest friends and 8 of our kids, decided not to give up sugar, read zillions of books.

So far, so good.