Knowing When The Party’s Over

Saying goodbye to my hard drinking days

Photo by Dylan de Jonge on Unsplash

I’m retired, and I still drink, but not in the sense of “he’s a drinker,” or “he drinks.” Those are people whose identity begins and often ends with drinking. I’m happy to have dodged that bullet.

I’m writing about this because of a memory from some years ago, back when my wife Barbara and I spent the winter months in…