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Keeping it together in sobriety: part one of five

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Penny Guisinger

I have to do five things, all the time, to stay comfortable in sobriety. Running is one of them. I’ve been an off and on runner (mostly off) for a couple of decades. Here’s my cyclical running pattern. Don’t run for a year or more. Go for one two-mile run. Sign up for a marathon. … Continue reading Keeping it together in sobriety: part one of five →

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My dreams are three-ply plastic

Posted on February 16, 2019February 16, 2019 by Penny Guisinger

A friend told me that drinking dreams are merely “our subconscious taking out the trash” but I think it’s more like “our subconscious upending the trash can and spreading the trash all over the kitchen then leaving the door open on its way out”. These dreams are always a variation on the same theme. There … Continue reading My dreams are three-ply plastic →

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Sober flying is stupid

Posted on January 22, 2019February 15, 2019 by Penny Guisinger

Airports are for drinking, which everyone knows. Some of my best binges were in airports, which led to binging on planes, which led to navigating any number of strange cities through the delicious fog of my own toxicity. Standing, hip cocked, waiting for my bag, reinstalling Uber through a Boingo hotspot, then carefully avoiding conversation … Continue reading Sober flying is stupid →

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Who is Penny and why is she blogging?

Penny Guisinger is a sober alcoholic, obviously. She’s also the author of Postcards from Here. She’s blogging because she can’t possibly be the only sober person who thinks the whole process is as hilarious as it is sad and wonderful. She lives and writes on the easternmost tip of Maine. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Guernica, Solstice, Under the Gum Tree, and other terrifyingly important literary magazines. Her second book, Shift, is in progress. Penny is the founding director of Iota: Short Prose Conference and a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Program. She lives with two dogs, two kids, her wife, and a family of porcupines that trundle across the lawn like bulldozers. Penny’s stable of literary agents is currently empty, and she would welcome eager calls, emails, unannounced visits, or other stalking behaviors. (From agents only, please. Regular stalkers should know that she has a really big dog.)

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