All Hallows Eve. The important day was November 1st, All Saints Day. In Hungary that’s still the key. Mexico twists it, Dia de los Muertos, the sugar shaped like skulls, the focus on the dead. Halloween pranks and mischief became […]
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Annual Eating Orgy
Halloween candy, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year… small wonder when it finally comes most resolutions begin with diets, weight loss, exercise, living better. But we have the marvelous opportunity to start now, to eat sanely, intelligently, with a nine week head start […]
Continue reading »Sharing the Mess
When people share the mess instead of the message, at meetings or elsewhere, I realize that I am not alone in getting things backward. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 3353-3363). Sharing the mess, talking about what’s wrong, not in the […]
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“If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no […]
Continue reading »On the Pentacle of Life
I descended into a horrific food rock bottom, which finally convinced me that compulsive overeating is a progressive, dangerous, and slow-killing disease of mind, body, and spirit. My slide was halted only by seeking help from fellow OA members and […]
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