Meetings: Past, Present, and Future9/1/2010
As I was on my way to a meeting the other night, I realized that AA meeting rooms — safe little oases for us alcoholics — dot the landscape like X’s on a pirate’s treasure map.
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Chicken Little8/25/2010
My wife has a bit of Chicken Little in her – you know, the character who believes the world is coming to an end and runs around saying “The sky is falling, the sky is falling”? Well, every so often, in a certain way, she’s right: the sky is falling.
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Milton's Dream8/18/2010
Things don’t always turn out the way they’re planned. It’s a simple lesson I tend to forget. And, while I’m usually more of a pessimist, I have to admit that every so often they actually turn out better than planned.
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The Dopamine Made Me Do It8/11/2010
There have been plenty of advances in the research world regarding alcoholism and addiction since I quit drinking; for instance, the discovery of the neurological circuit in the brain’s limbic system known, beguilingly, as the Pleasure Pathway.
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Hobgoblins8/4/2010
It has often been said that it’s easy to stop drinking. There’s some truth in that, of course, but the real trick is in staying stopped – a little detail that escaped me for some time.
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The Moth7/27/2010
Recovery has taught me that I can’t think my way into right action; instead, I need to act my way into right thinking. It’s a lesson I learned in early sobriety, though I was reminded of it again today.
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Speed7/15/2010
When I decided to quit drinking, it wasn’t because I wanted to lead a sober lifestyle. In fact, I didn’t have any idea what a sober lifestyle was. All I wanted was for the pain to stop.
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WAIT or WAIL?7/7/2010
In recovery, acronyms seem to pop up like mushrooms. Covering all kinds of circumstances and conditions, little reminders like HALT (don’t get too Hungry, Angry, Lonely and Tired), KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid), and NUTS (Not Using the Steps) made my life in early recovery just a little bit easier.
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