My Alcoholism & Recovery

Discipline a word that I always hated. Really it just meant doing things that I did not want to do. When I look back at my life I avoided as much as I could anything I did not want to do. A bit childish I now think. Not being prepared to trade off those boring […]

God, I just think that life would be so much simpler if had never been a drinker - if I had never been or still am an alcoholic. Yeah, perhaps one of those days of just feeling sorry for myself, but it is still not pleasant.
I often wonder if non-alcoholic just feel the same way […]

I wandered along in AA for a while thinking that AA had went somewhere that its founders did not intend it too. Many people talk about their childhood and “getting over it.” I had this picture in my mind of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous being guys that grew up in happy homes and just […]

Addiction is a “compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal; broadly : persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful.”
I’ve been there, and that’s why I write this. Maybe some of it will […]