After a couple of days in dollar hotels and one night in the pokey… (Alcoholics Anonymous, page 219) Skid row or hoosegow,breaking ritzy chairsor ER-panicked patching,morbid obesity multiplied,prostitution or a life of crimeto score the hits —seems like bottom, feels like […]

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This short word somehow touches about every aspect of our lives… Sometimes we think fear ought to be classed with stealing. It seems to cause more trouble. (Alcoholics Anonymous, pages 67-68) Such a little word, is fear,yet so totally dominant.It sneaks in back doors,breaks […]

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Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the impression that these personality changes, or religious experiences, must be in the nature of sudden and spectacular upheavals. Happily for everyone, this conclusion is erroneous. (Appendix II, Alcoholics […]

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Learn what?What do I lack knowing?I don’t know my husband.Heck, I don’t know myself.What is there to learn, though?What does it mean to learn?Gain or acquire knowledge or skillsby study, by experienceby being taught.Commit to memory.Become aware of by watching,observing. […]

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Death’s the discharge of our debt of sorrow. Seneca A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. Publilius Syrus An amend unmade weighs like debt unpaid, nibbles on capital dribbling coins of fear A day of recovery  […]

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