Over at big Salon last night, we ran a great essay by my colleague Sarah Hepola about, after returning home to Texas a year after she quit booze, figuring out how to hang out with her old drinking buddies... without going to the bar. The piece addresses one of the most fundamental issues we face when we make major life changes: How do we cope with the ways this affects parts of our lives and our selves that we didn't anticipate.
We want to read your stories about the surprising and difficult challenges you faced after you quit doing something (it can be anything from quitting smoking to quitting your job to quitting eating meat to quitting your marriage to quitting Twitter).
Be sure to tag your posts "life after quitting." We'll be featuring our favorites here on the cover of Open Salon and we're hoping to cross-post some onto Salon as well.

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Bo sip Doulble Bock Beer.
Order some raw goat milk.
Gin kill Kerry's disposition.
No Gulps Sticky BBG Rums.
Drink Adam's Wine. Water.
Adam's wine? It's Pure H2o.
Let's QUIT nasty disposition!
Please Place goat milk in all Booze Bars that Kerry Capone hangs out in. ASAP! Please.
Bo sip Doulble Bock Beer.
Order some raw goat milk.
Gin kill Kerry's disposition.
No Gulps Sticky BBG Rums.
Drink Adam's Wine. Water.
Adam's wine? It's Pure H2o.
Let's QUIT nasty disposition!
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Kerry is asleep in bar?
He nap in squirrel hole?
Who runs Open Salon?
The Pope? He sip 7-up.
He love canned `Fanta.
Please Place goat milk in all Booze Bars that Kerry Capone hangs out in. ASAP! Please.
Bo sip Doulble Bock Beer.
Order some raw goat milk.
Gin kill Kerry's disposition.
No Gulps Sticky BBG Rums.
Drink Adam's Wine. Water.
Adam's wine? It's Pure H2o.
Let's QUIT nasty disposition!
&
&=means comment seems stuck.
Kerry whine and deletes goat milk.
Try `gin 2 X's
Please Place goat milk in all Booze Bars that Kerry Capone hangs out in. ASAP! Please.
Bo sip Doulble Bock Beer.
Order some raw goat milk.
Gin kill Kerry's disposition.
No Gulps Sticky BBG Rums.
Drink Adam's Wine. Water.
Adam's wine? It's Pure H2o.
Let's QUIT nasty disposition!
&
&=means comment seems stuck.
Kerry whine and deletes goat milk.
Try `gin 2 X's.
&
&=mean? 3rd try!
Please Place goat milk in all Booze Bars that Kerry Capone hangs out in. ASAP! Please.
Bo sip Doulble Bock Beer.
Order some raw goat milk.
Gin kill Kerry's disposition.
No Gulps Sticky BBG Rums.
Drink Adam's Wine. Water.
Adam's wine? It's Pure H2o.
Let's QUIT nasty disposition!
&
&=means comment seems stuck.
Kerry whine and deletes goat milk.
Try `gin 2 X's.
&
&=mean? 3rd try!
&=FOUR! Why?
O Why O Why?
Please Place goat milk in all Booze Bars that Kerry Capone hangs out in. ASAP! Please.
Bo sip Doulble Bock Beer.
Order some raw goat milk.
Gin kill Kerry's disposition.
No Gulps Sticky BBG Rums.
Drink Adam's Wine. Water.
Adam's wine? It's Pure H2o.
Let's QUIT nasty disposition!
&
&=means comment seems stuck.
Kerry whine and deletes goat milk.
Try `gin 2 X's.
&
&=mean? 3rd try!
&=FOUR! Why?
O Why O Why?
&
&=Try a FITH?
No go 6 X`s O.
This could be some very interesting reading. :)
Now, the article by Michael Takiff on Eric Cantor? Hilarious!!
I kept wondering what a parallel article by a Christian to their "tribe's" swindlers would sound like...
Oh yeah, hiding in the closet, praying for death to come, good times!!
scanner inspired me. ~nodding~ Except I added NUKES UNDER NEW YORK CITY GOING OFF ON THE MINUTE OF MY DEATH BY OVERDOSING ON CUPCAKES!!
:D
I know...no EP for me!! That's okay, I haven't written my story yet!! Teeheehee!! :D
We, the Gutter Krew especially, worry that you're no longer among the living and we weep!!!
Not a lot mind you, just enough to get our eyes wet.....
Anyways....
Long story short, I became an RN, worked hard and put them through school. For their part, they never gave me one bad day, other than minor childhood problems. I am truly blessed.
My ex-husband is now my late ex-husband, drugs always get you, someway, some how. I am remarried to a fabulous man. Both my children have done well. My son, a PhD. will marry next month. My daughter, a project coordinator, has a wonderful man in her life.
I think the term quit should be replaced by begin.
Not my words, but so true: Adversity does not build as much character as it reveals.
Kudos to all who've begun.
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