Tag Archives: drunk

Don’t Step On a Crack!

Posted on October 3, 2024 by mitchteemley

My Age of Anxiety A true story There were signs early on, but I was too young to know what they meant. In primary school I heard the phrase, “Step on a crack and break your mother’s back,” and started … Continue reading →

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Why I Don’t Do Drugs

Posted on January 30, 2024 by mitchteemley

A short time after doing drugs for the first time, I scribbled the above anxiety-fueled meditation (and accompanying doodle) about looking into one’s own brain and never being able to look out again. My Real Memoir I’d turned nineteen, and … Continue reading →

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Flying Out of Control

Posted on January 23, 2024 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir My band, The Daily Planet, had just finished recording our first album and were anxious to get on with becoming famous! Our sonic heroes were soaring: The Beatles with “Get Back” and soon Abbey Road, Simon & … Continue reading →

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Accidentally Snockered!

Posted on August 26, 2023 by mitchteemley

Source: Prettysleepy The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. Newly arrived at the island kingdom of Sur Kellan, Zack and Gina were … Continue reading →

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The Tequila Talking

Posted on December 8, 2021 by mitchteemley

Image by Minton Sparks Not all Christmas gatherings are joyful. My Featured Blogger this week is Alexis Ryder of Stories I’ve Never Told. A gifted Canadian writer who draws from her own life and journals, turning her experiences into semi-fictional … Continue reading →

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My Life as a Spiritual Vagrant

Posted on May 20, 2021 by mitchteemley

Drunk and Depressed When I was a young man, I began searching for the meaning of life. Along the way, I wrote a travel journal, a mix of prose and poetry, and labelled it Fool’s Odyssey. My life of joyful hedonism … Continue reading →

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The Wishing Map 79

Posted on August 23, 2017 by mitchteemley

Sometimes we catch glimpses of a Plan far bigger than our own at work, a Plan that includes us, whether we chose it or not.

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The Wishing Map 74

Posted on July 19, 2017 by mitchteemley

Most of us discover our life’s calling purely by “accident.”

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The Wishing Map 72

Posted on July 5, 2017 by mitchteemley

Have you ever found a group of people who see value in you that no else has? It’s heavenly. Or dangerous. Probably both.

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The Wishing Map 71

Posted on June 28, 2017 by mitchteemley

“She’s acting weird, Zack thought, even for Gina.” Like Gina, I got drunk (accidentally) as a kid. Has that ever happened to you or to anyone you know?

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