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I had just left the all time, well at least one of the bottom 10, all time worst AA meetings I have ever been in. I’m not judging. I’m just saying. I left grateful that I’m me, and I’m at this place in recovery. Enough said.
So the 10:00 meeting I was [...]
Tags: 1st Step, Addiction, Gay, Honesty, methamphetamine, Recovery, sex
Dennis is a “30 day wonder” and an unfortunate artifact of my bad old days; and he was at the meeting I went to last night. I don’t normally attend the local gay AA meeting except on milestones. I’ve heard that all you need to start a new meeting is a resentment and a coffee [...]
Tags: 1st Step, Compulsion, Early Recovery, Honesty, methamphetamine, Self-Centeredness, Selfishness
Tonight I’m going to my first Debtors Anonymous meeting. There is only one DA meeting. There is only one of them a week here in Boise. I checked out the DA website this morning and it is really directed at people with incredible credit card debt. I don’t have debt like that, [...]
My name is Chris and I’m an addict. By the grace of a Higher Power of my own understanding, strong sponsorship, the fellowship and the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, I have not had to imbibe, ingest, inhale, or inject anything, to change who I am or to cope with the intolerable condition of my [...]
Bullwinkle: “Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!”
Rocky: “Again? That trick never works.”
Bullwinkle: “But this time for sure. Nothing up my sleeve. Presto!” . . . “I’ve got to get another hat.”
Rocky: “And now, here’s something we hope you’ll really like!”
Don’t ask [...]
Tags: Hope, unmanageability
I don’t normally duplicate work I produce elsewhere, but there are only so many ways you can say the same thing. In this case, it’s something I need to say in every channel I write in.
Just like with drugs and alcohol, it seems to be a natural part of my character that until I have [...]
Tags: 1st Step, 2nd step, 3rd Step, Fear, Honesty, Hope, Humility, Integrity, Willingness
I wrote a post over at the Second Road the other day about the hurdles we face in finding the Higher Power of 12 step programs. The idea for the post came from a conversation I had with a friend a few nights ago wherein he told me that the only ‘God’ he was willing [...]
Tags: 2nd step, 3rd Step, Creator, Faith, Glen F. Chesnut, God, Higher Power, Hindsfoot Foundation, Hope, Open-Mindedness, Willingness
#1. “This would make a great reality show.”
What’s weird is that “Baby Borrowers” is actually pretty cool. Some of these teenagers are horrible people. Horrible. The good news is that their boy or girlfriends get to find out. The absence of cash and prizes certainly brings out a different quality in people. I honestly only [...]
Remember these? High school gym shorts from the 1980’s. Wow. At the time I thought they were pretty hot, at least on certain guys. You had to have pretty great legs to pul[ this look off, but there were always a couple of guys in gym class who fit the bill. I think the poly-knit [...]
Tags: 12 step, 2nd step, 6th step, AA, Addiction, alcoholism, desire, gym shorts, Hope, Kennedy, Martha Stewart, old ideas, Recovery, sober, uniform, Willingness, wish fulfillment
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