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It should have become clear to me a long time ago. Perhaps it was and I simply hadn’t the willingness to do something about it, but it is clear now that I can benefit from therapy. I don’t think I’ll make any significant gains in becoming happy without professional help. So in addition to starting [...]
I can’t believe it. Day 1000 passed without my noticing it. I was in Las Vegas at the time visiting my mom and dad. I spent the day hanging out with them, my great-uncle and his new wife and daughter, my aunt and two of my cousins. Watched some football. [...]
They’re out. They’re back in. They’re out. They’re back in.
It’s exhausting. I’m afraid I have a growing prejudice against those that seem to want it but aren’t willing to ride out the discomfort in order to achieve long term sobriety. Not that I can claim anything like long term [...]
“We don’t want anybody up here. We just tell people this place is nothing but a bunch of queers and weirdos,” my sponsor told me. There is a kernel of truth in it, of course, but there is a sweetness about the place and the people there that is hard to describe.
I exaggerated about [...]
I bought a book the other day, right after I vomited my insanity here; Mindfulness in Plain English. And I’m encouraged because I finally found a definition of ‘faith’ that I can work with. No GrandWizardMagicalSantaClaus required. What a relief. I have some nice, plainly written instructions to make a beginning, and then there are [...]
For the last year I have worked out of my employer’s house. He had a couple of sales people in the den and I (barely functioning) endured the isolation of the spare bedroom. This week we rented and have been moving into an office. I should work in an office. I should not work in [...]
For the last month or so I have been in the grips of the insane idea that I have outgrown AA. I say it is an insane idea because 12 step recovery is the only thing that ever got me sober for any length of time. And even though the idea is insane, it may [...]
My friend Will says I should have had “representation.” He says that ” one man’s dishonest and sleezy is another man’s brilliant internet business model. But when twitter contacted me because TEXACO wanted to use their own name for their twitter account, even though I was not violating the terms of service, the idea of [...]
To say that things at home have been tense is something of an understatement. One of the roommates has some pretty execrable behavior involving other people that I have grown very tired of. To paraphrase Elvis, a little less drama and a little more action, seem to be in order, yet there is very little [...]
It’s been almost 2 years since we were all together. Grandma’s funeral doesn’t count, but 2 years ago my entire clan got together for a reunion (you can read about here) and we’ll be together again in a couple of days. For the first time in decades I’ll actually get to SEE my father on [...]
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