Keep coming back, they tell us. And if that means to meetings, then right on! But too many of us find recovery, then life gets in the way, or holidays, or company, being it or having it and meetings get […]
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We Can’t Quit
Like compulsive overeaters, normal eaters will sometimes find pleasure and escape from life’s problems in excess food. Compulsive overeaters, however, often have an abnormal reaction when we overindulge. We can’t quit. A normal eater gets full and loses interest in food. […]
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The rules for a minute poem: 3 quatrains (or 4-line stanzas) 8 syllables in the first line of each stanza 4 syllables in the remaining lines of each stanza rhyme scheme: aabb/ccdd/eeff written in strict iambic meter Recovery in twelve […]
Continue reading »If Only I Hadn’t Acted like Myself
The habits are congealed, rock solid. I’m a private person, a cosmopolitan hermit. Small talk is water torture, chitchat anathema, meeting people the bane of my existence. I arrive on time, to the minute, leaving no time, no interstices for […]
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