The familiar social-hour question of “what are you drinking?” has always included an implicit assumption. Somehow many of us came to believe that the social connection wasn’t the main point, and that it’s alcohol that makes us happy. In recent years, tastes, habits and fashions around alcohol have been changing rapidly, and contemporary research has… Continue reading What Are You Drinking? Aug 14, 2019 at The Battery
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Alcohol is Obsolete
What I’ve learned from my own experience is that alcohol, “alcoholic” and “alcolholism” are all obsolete.We’ve learned a lot about alcohol in recent years. We’re coming to understand it in the context of modern neuroscience and holistic well-being, and that it affects us all in the same basic ways.Wanting to be your full self is… Continue reading Alcohol is Obsolete
An Ordinary Disaster
What kid gets that there’s a lesson encoded in every rule? I was no different, and so my confident rule-breaking was also a precocious defiance of all the things that I could have known. I learned most of all to reject what others had built, what they had assumed for me. I got good first… Continue reading An Ordinary Disaster