Wherever You Go, There You Are (With Cancer)

"Sobriety hasn’t made me fearless, but it sure has given me a lot of tools for dealing with fear."

There were some harrowing, life-changing moments in my early sobriety, and I did not stay sober throughout all of them. How I justified my very uninspired relapses was simple: my life had become too complicated and strange, and my professional writing “career” was completely torched. These were real problems, and it just didn’t seem possible–or sane–to …