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My sobriety anniversary is very important to me and it’s coming up here soon, but it doesn’t quite move me the same way December 13th does. December 13th, today, happens also to be my birthday, but my God, I’m 44 years old. My “birthday” is not really a big deal anymore. No, the anniversary I [...]
I just hate it when I suddenly realize the truth behind those stupid things we say to each other in meetings. Keep it simple, stupid? Don’t you dare call me stupid. Motherfucker.
But there you go. I am making too hard a work of a simple thing. Recovering addicts and alcoholics everywhere, from every walk of [...]
The first tool they “lay at our feet†in DA is tracking; carefully recording all income and expenditures. It is pretty easy to track total abstainance, but in a program for something you absolutely have to use, tracking becomes very important.
I had some money in my pocket since I got paid for a little side [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Caught in the Snide
And in that dreadful place
Those spooky empty pants and I
Were standing face to face.
I yelled for help. I screamed. I shrieked.
I howled. I yowled. I cried.
Oh! Save me from those pale green pants
With nobody inside.
-Dr. Seuss
Isn’t that the essence of fear? When we finally find [...]
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 [...]
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