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It is so strange, and so strange that it is comforting to be again in the company of my family and among people who share my religious heritage. The Church (of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints – the Mormons) take a very dim view of homosexuality and of drug addiction. Now that [...]
Well this is my 5th day without smoking cigarettes and it is getting a little easier to navigate. The cravings that do appear seem to come out of nowhere, but are related to events; finishing a meal, walking out of a meeting, getting out of bed – that sort of thing. The only place that [...]
I don’t know that I’ve ever been so sick and not been hospitalized. Without health insurance and without any savings I elected to just ride it out, which, in retrospect, was probably a bad idea. I haven’t had solid food since Monday, but I am finally keeping fluids down and the exhausting cycle of fevers [...]
Facebook. Yep. Facebook. I now count Facebook among my addictions. When I’m at work, I’m at work, and when I’m at school, I’m at school, but the moments in between I’m checking Facebook every 15 minutes. It makes me feel connected. Crazy, I know. Whatever.
Here, at least for the first year or so, I enjoyed [...]
I’m trying a little expirement in extreme practice of the principles in a specific area of my life that I requires specific behavior that very, very few people, addict or no, ever do.
Am I above the law? The practice of humility requires that I answer no to that question. And if I am not above [...]
In all honesty the 2 most possible of the three types of relationships that I might have with Dennis are the sponsor/sponsee and roommate/roommate relationships. I’m not so caught up in fantasy as to not realize that once he’s gotten through the steps he’s going to be a different person than he is now. I’ll [...]
Final answer.
And that’s all I need. While I may (or may not) entertain the suggestions of friends, I do what my sponsor suggests without rebuttal. I’ll question him to learn how to think and hear about his own experience, but I do what he suggests. Period.
And he says, “No.”
Oddly, he’s softer on the dating question.
I [...]
My favorite writer, Paul Monette, along with several collections of poetry, an acclaimed collection of essays, and two biographies, one of which won the National Book Award, wrote a bunch of pulp fiction. It is pulp. The stories aren’t challenging. They don’t really give one much to think about. But they are so beautifully written [...]
Seriously? That was border line rude. Me dissing you would have been having no plans, received your offer, and then made other plans.
It wasn’t borderline. What I did wasn’t borderline. It was rude and stupid and, seriously, I should be put out of my misery. First of all, I blame Oprah, because if I hadn’t [...]
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