Lonesome Dove6/27/2008
by Ames S.
amess@sober24.com
I love Westerns. One of my favorites is “Lonesome Dove” starring Robert
Duvall as Augustus McCrae and Tommie Lee Jones as Woodrow Call, former
Texas Rangers turned sallow cowpokes living in Lonesome Dove, who
undertake an epic journey from the dusty plains of south Texas to the
lush frontier expanse of northern Montana in search of new adventure
and their own Garden of Eden.
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Multi-tasking6/20/2008
by Ames S.
amess@sober24.com
I was walking down Broadway the other day and I saw this kid riding a
skateboard, listening to an iPod, and sending a text message on his
cell phone all at the same time.
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Body, Mind and Spirit6/12/2008
by Ames
S.
amess@sober24.com
One of the first things I learned about alcoholism when I
got sober is that it’s a threefold disease: physical, mental, and spiritual. I
pretty much knew that already, in the counter-intuitive way alcoholics often
know things about their alcoholism, even if they can’t articulate them.
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June 10th6/3/2008
by Ames
S.
amess@sober24.com
I’ve always been the kind of person who won’t read anything
twice. It’s a character flaw, I suppose, a certain arrogance that leads me to
believe that if I’ve read it once, reading it again isn’t going to add anything
new, even though, as happens quite frequently, I’ve completely forgotten
everything from when I read it the first time. There’s one critical exception,
though, and that’s AA literature.
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Murder and Mayhem5/29/2008
by Ames S.
amess@sober24.com
A friend of mine called me at work the other day, a friend I’ve known
in recovery for over 25 years. Basically, she called to complain about
the flood of bad news that seemed to have overtaken her life in the
previous few days.
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‘Now Hear This’5/22/2008
by Ames S.
amess@sober24.com
When I first got sober I didn’t talk too much. I liked to think of
myself as a man of few words, like Chuck Connors on “The Rifleman,” but
my silence was really more the result of a sinking feeling that if I
actually opened my mouth and started to share, all the anger and
frustration I’d been stuffing down inside of me for years and years
would boil to the surface and spew out, like a scene from “The
Exorcist.”
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MythBusters5/15/2008
by Ames S.
amess@sober24.com
There’s a TV program on the Discovery Channel called “MythBusters,”
hosted by two American special effects experts who use basic scientific
methods to test the validity of various rumors, urban legends and news
stories in popular culture.
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Playing Dead5/8/2008
by Ames S.
amess@sober24.comThe 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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