I own it, I didn't, not proud about me, and when I face a little dignity, not looking for excuse, I just want to be free from Well, hello, and welcome to the bubble hour where real people sing real songs on the radio.

No, that's not it at all.

I was just in a very punchy mood, and since it's just me on the show today, I couldn't help

that sing along with the opening music.

And I'm out at the ski cabin.

My reception is not the greatest. And I'm out at the ski cabin. My reception is not the greatest. And everyone is out skiing right now except for me because I decided to stay in and record a quick podcast.

So I'm hoping this goes well because I have actually on about hour three of trying to make this work.

Technology on the go is just not always what we want it to be.

But today this shows a little bit different than most shows anyway.

So I just wanted to squeak a quick one in because it's going to be another week before I have a regular guest.

And I thought I would read you something.

This is a guest who I've been trying to get on the show for a while

because we've been emailing back and forth,

and he's been struggling a bit.

And so in the end we decided that he would allow me to share his emails instead because they tell a story that

he is just not ready to tell you in person right now. And it's a story that a lot of you

have experienced, which is kind of the highs and lows of recovery. And just sometimes as time

goes on, we are surprised how we can get shaky. So this comes from a reader by the name

of Charles, a reader and a listener. Charles first wrote to me through my blog Unpickled, and I suggested

some bubble hour episodes to him at that time because he was having the experience

of being kind of a high functioning executive type and we had some specific episodes on that

and then he began binging on the bubble hour finding so much connection here from the story

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