January 2012

Choice

January 31, 2012

A sponsee is drunk. I just got off the phone with him, and he wanted to come meet me for a previously-scheduled dinner. I asked him not to drive if he’d been drinking… and then there was this long pause on the other end of the phone and he simply said “ok Tom.” I was [...]

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Inventory

January 30, 2012

I’m Amber, an alcoholic. I won’t lie; I have cast the first stone on occasions. I don’t live in a glass house, and I have at times looked at people and said, “Thank God I don’t have what you have,” or — look around to see who has what I want. Well, I asked, how [...]

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When who is what

January 29, 2012

When No One Is Watching- Joseph Hayes Rather than re-running one of my older essays on AA Speakers-which has been my practice recently- this week my topic is a book I just finished (whose title and author are the headline of this week’s column). I loved this book, not just for its accurate depiction of [...]

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A stray day

January 28, 2012

Toward the end of my drinking, it was pretty much round-the-clock — for breakfast it was shots of whatever left-over rot-gut scotch I had lying around from the night before (had to get some kind of booze in me if I wanted to even think about food staying down), and then had to grab a [...]

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When I remember…

January 27, 2012

“Did you ask for God’s help this morning? Why don’t you practice believing this is it?” – Al R., Oldsmar, FL c. 1993 I love it when I remember this one. Whatever goes on in my day, if I’ve asked God for help in the morning, why do I doubt that I’m getting it? Why [...]

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A nut for…

January 26, 2012

“For every nut in the program, there is a bolt.” When I first entered the rooms of recovery, I was a little taken back by some of the strange characters I heard share. Some had been to prison, some had lived on the streets, some had been prostitutes, some were ex-gangsters, and some were still [...]

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