Shaking the Family Tree
Viewing comments for Chapter 4 "My Story"Excerpts from addition to recovery.
27 total reviews
Comment from mermaids
I enjoyed reading this memoir and I am fond of poetry and prose together. It works well here. I work part time in the addiction field and appreciate your telling your story. I admire how you see the ripple effects of your addiction on others.
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2018
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I enjoyed reading this memoir and I am fond of poetry and prose together. It works well here. I work part time in the addiction field and appreciate your telling your story. I admire how you see the ripple effects of your addiction on others.
Comment Written 22-Apr-2018
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2018
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Thank you for the kind review and the bonus star. Will be posting once a week. It is a short book. About half way through.
Comment from Rasmine
Hello, :)
This is awesome writing. If I had a six left, and it being Sunday and all, but I've been reviewing for almost six hours. Blah! Why didn't you enter this into the contest? You probably would have won!
I love the contrast of poetry included in your prose:
They sounded like good reasons
and made perfect sense to me
till my future found me flailing
lost in alcohol's Dead Sea.
I found one typo:
There was constant mental whip cracking disguised as cheer leading (cheerleading) going on.
Keep on writing. Congrats on your sobriety. My mother lost the battle of alcoholism at a very young age of thirty-seven. I still miss her. My brother, even though he was adopted out of the family, got the disease. Lucky me, I am sober and always have been.
Take care,
Nome
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2018
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Hello, :)
This is awesome writing. If I had a six left, and it being Sunday and all, but I've been reviewing for almost six hours. Blah! Why didn't you enter this into the contest? You probably would have won!
I love the contrast of poetry included in your prose:
They sounded like good reasons
and made perfect sense to me
till my future found me flailing
lost in alcohol's Dead Sea.
I found one typo:
There was constant mental whip cracking disguised as cheer leading (cheerleading) going on.
Keep on writing. Congrats on your sobriety. My mother lost the battle of alcoholism at a very young age of thirty-seven. I still miss her. My brother, even though he was adopted out of the family, got the disease. Lucky me, I am sober and always have been.
Take care,
Nome
Comment Written 22-Apr-2018
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2018
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Thank you for reviewing. Will try and post 1 chapter a week. Actually, this is a very small book, about 88 pages. Thanks for following. I think I had it right in the book (cheerleading) either Grammary or this sites' spell check indicated that it was wrong. Go figure.
Comment from karenina
Someone in sobriety once told me he had never traveled so long or worked so hard to navigate the distance from hisvhead to his heart.
Rock bottom is different for every abuser of drink or drug. Congrats on climbing into your worth!
Karenina
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2018
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Someone in sobriety once told me he had never traveled so long or worked so hard to navigate the distance from hisvhead to his heart.
Rock bottom is different for every abuser of drink or drug. Congrats on climbing into your worth!
Karenina
Comment Written 22-Apr-2018
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2018
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I certainly understand that process. Thank you for reviewing.
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
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Amen, friend.
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Comment from Cindy McIntyre
What a great story of overcoming the life that alcohol controlled...all the good times and the bad. I liked that you weaved details of the story with poetry to give a description of all the emotions.
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2018
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What a great story of overcoming the life that alcohol controlled...all the good times and the bad. I liked that you weaved details of the story with poetry to give a description of all the emotions.
Comment Written 21-Apr-2018
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2018
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Thank you for reviewing, hope you follow remaining chapters.
Will be posting once a week.
Comment from Thomas Bowling
This is exceptional. I couldn't stop reading it. Your writing is on a par with The Days of Wine and Roses. Hemingway said that everything bad that ever happened to him, happened while he was drinking.
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2018
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This is exceptional. I couldn't stop reading it. Your writing is on a par with The Days of Wine and Roses. Hemingway said that everything bad that ever happened to him, happened while he was drinking.
Comment Written 21-Apr-2018
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2018
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thank you so much for the awesome review. I will be posting 1 chapter a week. It is actually a very short book.
Comment from Air Spirit
Wow! This is a story I can so relate to... both parents alcoholics, both brothers, and of course, me... I couldn't be left out! You weave your story, painful and lonely, isolated and fearful... those were the staples of how I lived each day of my 'drinking' life... I could relate to how you initially thought it fun, a game, by taking slurps off of adults' beers, or wine glasses... acting all grown up, but not realizing how I was playing Russian Roulette and didn't even realize I was gambling.. very poignant story/bio, and it is insightful, honest and humble... very well written, and it kept my attention the entire read.. Thank God for recovery -- but I never have understood why some of us get it, and many do not... Thank you for your brave story.. and for sharing..
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2018
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Wow! This is a story I can so relate to... both parents alcoholics, both brothers, and of course, me... I couldn't be left out! You weave your story, painful and lonely, isolated and fearful... those were the staples of how I lived each day of my 'drinking' life... I could relate to how you initially thought it fun, a game, by taking slurps off of adults' beers, or wine glasses... acting all grown up, but not realizing how I was playing Russian Roulette and didn't even realize I was gambling.. very poignant story/bio, and it is insightful, honest and humble... very well written, and it kept my attention the entire read.. Thank God for recovery -- but I never have understood why some of us get it, and many do not... Thank you for your brave story.. and for sharing..
Comment Written 21-Apr-2018
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2018
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Thank you for the great review. I will be posting a chapter every week. There are a lot of us out there . it is a family disease. I wonder the same thing. Still have a couple dangling on the edge out there.
Comment from JeffHarvy
Best of the best. I identify with so much of your story. Not the early drinking though as much as being what others wanted me to be. I could turn into whatever's you wanted. Later in my 30s the alcohol started. I was the life of the party until that fateful day.
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2018
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Best of the best. I identify with so much of your story. Not the early drinking though as much as being what others wanted me to be. I could turn into whatever's you wanted. Later in my 30s the alcohol started. I was the life of the party until that fateful day.
Comment Written 21-Apr-2018
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2018
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Thank you for reviewing. will be posting a chapter a week. There are a lot of us out there.
Comment from MelB
You did an excellent job writing about the damaging effects of alcoholism and how it affects relationships. I'm glad your sister took the step and I hope others in the family followed.
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2018
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You did an excellent job writing about the damaging effects of alcoholism and how it affects relationships. I'm glad your sister took the step and I hope others in the family followed.
Comment Written 21-Apr-2018
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2018
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Thanks for the great review and bonus star. Stay tuned to find out. Will be posting once a week. Thanks again.
Comment from Dawn Munro
What can I possibly say about this intimate, powerful re-telling of a journey only you experienced but is so familiar to me, and I am sure, to half of North America. having witnessed something similar growing up had a profound effect that has lasted my whole life.
Intense, raw and beautiful. Wish I had a six for it, Dallas. "The tension in our home vacillated..." - wow. Just one example of exceptional writing (and kudos to you for the courage it took to write it all, too).
***********************OUTSTANDING*********************
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2018
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What can I possibly say about this intimate, powerful re-telling of a journey only you experienced but is so familiar to me, and I am sure, to half of North America. having witnessed something similar growing up had a profound effect that has lasted my whole life.
Intense, raw and beautiful. Wish I had a six for it, Dallas. "The tension in our home vacillated..." - wow. Just one example of exceptional writing (and kudos to you for the courage it took to write it all, too).
***********************OUTSTANDING*********************
Comment Written 21-Apr-2018
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2018
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Thanks, Dawn. There are so may variations of the dynamics of family dysfunction, many can relate. Thanks again for the awesome review.
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You're very welcome - it was a truly grand read, my friend.
Comment from apky
I found the read so complelling I read it twice.
It is difficult to actually put oneself in another's life and feel with them. But somehow God imbued the human being with this ability to empathise and I really could feel with you and the sort of hell you must have gone through.
All power, then, to you for breaking away. Better still, for having the courage to write it all down so that somebody else might take courage from it and save themselves and their family.
Wish I had a six.
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2018
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I found the read so complelling I read it twice.
It is difficult to actually put oneself in another's life and feel with them. But somehow God imbued the human being with this ability to empathise and I really could feel with you and the sort of hell you must have gone through.
All power, then, to you for breaking away. Better still, for having the courage to write it all down so that somebody else might take courage from it and save themselves and their family.
Wish I had a six.
Comment Written 21-Apr-2018
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2018
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Thank you do much for recognizing the purpose of my writing this book. If it just encourages one person to seek help it eill be worth it. Thanks for following. Will try and post one chapter a week.