Dry Humor Me is a collection of personal essays focused on my recovery from grief, trauma, and alcohol addiction. Themes of addiction, recovery, self-annihilation, and self-redemption all delivered with heart, conviction, and a little bit of humor.
The truth is, we are all recovering from something. It’s just that I’ve been forced to have to focus all my energy on honing these specific skills in order to save my own life. Needless to say, shit gets real—real fast. Day in, day out. No excuses.
To serve you, for whom I am so incredibly grateful, I hold nothing back. I come at this thing called life raw, rough, ready. At the same time, my words come from a place deeply rooted in my sweet, poetic, compassionate soul. Above all else, I want us to get better. That’s all.
Public pieces are free to all each week.
Exclusive written and audio works, which are more private and intimate in nature, are offered to paid subscribers only.
Also treat yourself to my poetry and soft erotica over at my additional Substack site: The Wildflower Field.
Thank you to everyone who likes, comments, shares, or subscribes at any level of support. It means the world to me that you connect with my creations and with me.
About the Author
Allison Marie Taylor Conway is a published author (Luminae, Vein), writer, poet, voice artist, and certified addiction recovery coach, living in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA. She earned her B.A. in Arts & Sciences at Pennsylvania State University in 2000 and her Recovery & Life Coaching Certifications from World Coach Institute in 2022.
In her life, Allison has had the transformative experiences of being a single teenage mom (1998), losing her mother to inflammatory breast cancer (2006), and has struggled with and overcome a severely destructive relationship with alcohol. Accordingly, themes of grief, addiction, resilience, and renewal present themselves throughout all of her work.
Allison entered recovery on January 1, 2022, at the age of forty-three, and retired from her 20+year corporate career later that same year. She is now fully committed to exploring and sharing her creative expression in many forms, writing and voice artistry chief among them.
When she is not writing, recording, or creating, she’s walking in the woods, painting in her studio, reading about culture, politics, art, humor, and tech, strength training, hanging with friends and family, and going to bed as early as humanly possible.
Also follow Allison’s poetry and soft erotica at The Wildflower Field.
