Our lives became unmanageable when the car wouldn’t start, the computer broke down, or our checking account wouldn’t balance. We suffered from other people’s unmanaged lives or from bad luck. What alternative did we have? We ate to sate the […]
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How Much Is It Worth?
Every OA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions. ~ Seventh Tradition What was life like…before? All you can eat buffet, Nine Ninety-Nine, plus tax. A box of donuts…for the office, though they don’t get there, Another Nine Ninety-Nine, […]
Continue reading »And I Don’t Even Know Your Name
It’s the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity. ~ Vint Cerf We decry anonymity, want to be known, but now and again the very bane leading to loneliness, isolation, alienation sloughs […]
Continue reading »Life is Bothering Me
What in my life is bothering me today that I don’t want to face? Age. I assumed I’d live long since my patents and grandparents did. But there’s nobody older than me within the third degree of con sanguinity since […]
Continue reading »Before I judge You
I resented you for years, you old fart, for your meddling seemed always to make my best-laid plans fizzle, fade, die on the vine and I would have sworn your collective efforts secured the failure if all good things. Honestly, […]
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