Author: Patti Clark

Patti Clark is an author, a speaker and a world traveller who has settled in Northern Portugal, after living in New Zealand for the past thirty years. Patti has been in recovery circles since the first time she got clean and sober in 1988. She relapsed in 2000 and finally found her way back to recovery in 2014. Patti brings humor, humility and an understanding about relapse to the Sober Curator Team.

When I was in my 20s and bartending in Alaska (yeah, talk about a kid in the candy shop!), I had a T-shirt that said: So many men, so little time! I thought that was so funny โ€” now I canโ€™t believe I actually wore that! Then, in my 30s, raising two young children, I had a T-shirt that said: So many books, so little time! (I would wear that one if I still had it.)ย ย ย  But through it all, the T-shirt that would have been the most appropriate is: So many addictions, so little time! Addiction was never just…

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