A Surprise Note

I am coming up on my first month benchmark of quitting drinking and I am starting to feel comfortable to start talking about it. My daughter surprised me with a hand painted card last night telling me how proud she is with me on continuing to stay away from drinking. It brought me tears of joy.

I’m genetically pre-disposed to be a champion drinker with a solid heritage of Celtic highlands and Bavarian barstools in my family tree. I’ve never been really out of control but more so highly functional. Alcoholism doesn’t care which one you are. A month ago I broke down in tears at the dinner table realizing that I was noticeably intoxicated in front of my family as they remained silently eating. My son, wife and daughter got up and put their hands on my shoulders while I wept. From that moment I began the journey of sobriety.

I felt healed. I felt forgiven. I feel a new freedom.

I’m now enjoying the tastes of Non alcoholic beer while at home and performing around. - I’m amazed how good it is!

I’ve written a song that I am releasing this fall , it’s called “Lost Corners” and I am producing a video for it while we finish production of the song in the studio. I will be sharing it with my Substack followers first. Look for it next month!