Ana Marie Cox Instagram – I have a new blog thing that, for now, is centered on the twelve steps. It’s at my “Buy me a coffee” site (buymeacoffee.com/anamariecox) because I am refusing to start a newsletter! You can get the posts mailed to you with a one-time donation or you can support the project monthly and get access to exclusive posts and submit questions (about recovery or… anything!).
Some of these thoughts have been on my heart for a while and are finding their way into my memoir. Some of them are stray ideas from my reading or meetings. I hope you’ll find something that resonates for you.
This excerpt is:
Like any good American, I believed that an organized closet would fix me. I would visit the Arlington, Virginia Container Store and stand still in the valleys between towering displays of shelving, kitchen accessories, and laundry baskets. My cart empty; my mind filled with indecision, shame, and envy. I imagined other shoppers went home to pantries resembling the store windows. I tossed hundreds of dollars of plastic boxes, food decanters, and planner accessories into my cart and fled to the nearest chain restaurant for a glass of wine. Sometimes I opened the boxes when I got home, sometimes they waited for the next hypomanic episode when I would stay up all night, rolling socks and throwing out wire hangers until the sun came up. | Posted on 15/Feb/2024 21:33:18
