Traveling fool, mixologist of amusements, standard breaker, burrito eater, café culture know-it-all. Available on the web at detourdelights.com.
Or to put it another way, giving up drinking wasn’t difficult, it was literally impossible. Because the new start is always the same: I’m going to drink less; or the same amount less frequently; or the same amount just as frequently, but in a different place or at a different time of day; perhaps the same amount in the same place at the same time, just as frequently, but with different people, or, for novelty’s sake, a different drink — say, Brandy Alexanders rather than stout. (For some reason I had a Brandy Alexanders phase back i…