In My Shoes
The idea of playing dead has always appealed to me. It’s a well-known defense mechanism in nature: when attacked by a grizzly, the prevailing wisdom suggests you curl up in a ball and play dead.
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Spotlight On...Letters from Readers
A number of readers have recently been in touch with Sober 24, telling their stories and sharing their experience, strength, and hope with us. If you’d like to be in touch, too, you can “Tell Us Your Story” at www.sober24.com/E_Zine/Submissions/159/.
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Then & NowI love riding on trains. There’s something about that quiet little lurch the
car makes when the motor kicks in and the car pulls out of the station. It’s
like you’ve just been unplugged from the world.
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Tool BoxUsing the 24-hour plan
“In our drinking days, we often had such bad times that we swore, ‘Never again.’ We took pledges for as long as a year, or promised someone we would not touch the stuff for three weeks, or three months.
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 5/8/2008
Letters from ReadersA number of readers have recently been in touch with Sober
24, telling their stories and sharing their experience, strength, and hope with
us. If you’d like to be in touch, too, you can “Tell Us Your Story” at www.sober24.com/E_Zine/Submissions/159/.
We’d love to hear from you.
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4/24/2008
BlackoutsMany times at AA meetings I had heard the words that described my
disease: cunning, powerful and baffling. I knew how strong and tempting
alcohol could be, but I'd also learned that all I had to do, one day at
a time, was not drink and go to meetings.
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4/17/2008
‘The God Thing’
“No, it won’t kill you.”
I was sitting in the office of a surgeon I’d only met 30
minutes ago, listening to him recommend – what else – SURGERY. “It won’t kill
you,” he continued, “unless it twists around and cuts off the blood flow. Then
it’ll kill ya.”
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