Thursday
August 7, 2014

Life on Life's Terms

What situation?

"Who will walk Tiffany down the aisle?" my wife asked.

"Nobody," I answered.  "She's going to walk herself down the aisle."

"Will her family be angry she didn't have her brother, or maybe an uncle, walk with her?"

"She's not going to invite them," I said.  "She's not even going to tell them."

"That's so sad."

"That's what I thought, but Tiffany doesn't seem the least bit unhappy about it.  In fact she plans on high-fiving people all the way up the aisle."

"She's so good at making the best of a bad situation."

"She refuses to let her family interfere with her happiness.  Gotta love that."

Today I will refuse to let other people interfere with my happiness.

  

Life on Life's Terms (c) 2014 by Ken Montrose

Freebie

This week's freebie is the Kindle version of Heroin, Oxycontin, & Other Opiates: Breaking Your Addiction to Them is available at  http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S.


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Upcoming

Burnout: Clinical, Ethical, & Supervisory Issues
September 12, 2014 at Greenbriar-New Kensington
9:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m
$30 payable in advance, at the door, or by invoice after the training

This three hour training is accredited for:

• Addiction Counselors by the Pa. Certification Board
• CRCs  by the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification # 11938191652 and 11938191653 (one hour Ethics portion)
• Counselors by NAADAC #477 and NBCC #6352
• EAPs by the Employee Assistance Certification Commission
• Social Workers by the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work.

Other Blogs

 AArdvarks, a daily messages blog about a group of young people in recovery can be found at: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/6777796-disease-du-jour

Smart Bears, Angry Rats

Could be worse 150 Years later

In the morning Sonya turned on the iWall to hear the news.  The way too perky announcer said the U.S. population had fallen to 20 million people scattered over 4 million square miles.

The birthrate had fallen slowly, allowing the government time to plan. Industry had been able to mothball chemical plants and nuclear facilities.  The military had been able to store weapons in safe facilities.

"It could have been much worse," she said to Casey.  The dog wagged his tail in agreement.  "We could be living in a nuclear wasteland, or soaked in spilled chemicals." 

Today I will be grateful things aren't worse.

Smart Bears, Angry Rats (c) 2014 by Ken Montrose