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Warming Up. Again.

Another Day One is on the horizon. Currently, I'm warming up for the challenge. In my listening and learning from bloggers, podcasters and writers that have gone before me in the search for a dry life, I've found that most folks don't have a clean cut stop story. Many starts and stops, fits, attempts and failures. Tiny successes along the way stringing together patches of good days. I've had the same experience, I guess. 12 days here, 10 days there, 5 days another time...when I think about it, though, I've probably only had a total of 45 dry days (just guessing here), outside of 2 pregnancies, in the past 8 years. March 6, 2020 was different. I actually named it. Wrote it down. Declared it Day One. I was ready to tackle the beast. My head was right and my resolve was strong. I made it almost 2 whole weeks and, looking back, don't remember it being the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. I made it through, after all. Then, March 15, 2020 happened. T...