Releasing what was never mine to control; Embracing what is mine to enjoy.
THINK Old-timers told me, “Think the drink through.” Step TEN tells me to think the day through. Both imperatives are slip preventers. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. (emphasis added) The chapter in
Emotions Complicate Even Simple Stuff Showing kids how to manage their emotions showed me I can do better with my own. Keeping things simple in these crazy times isn’t easy. Nor is the slogan K.I.S.S. easy in some of the
Step 2 “Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity . . . “ Many have defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. It isn’t just drunks
When I think back about why I think I drank, details fuzz over. Mainly I started to drink because that was what everybody was doing. My friends and I were sneaking around, getting “tight,’” and partying. It was the early
When I read it, I did a double take: Anything worth doing the motto began, is worth doing poorly. Wait — What? I thought, if anything’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right! (The 4th Earl of Chesterfield) Reasons for Reluctance
I still read the advice columns. So, today I got some advice worth repeating; I wish I had received earlier. Maybe you can relate to its commonsense. You can’t keep others from creating a scene but you can chose not to
Someone who has been sober for 365 days shared some lessons worth repeating. It’s worth a read. Sober for 365 Days is like a refresher of the promises I came to enjoy through AA. The 12 Promises If we are
The question, how are you doing? comes to mind because a friend texted me telling me how they were doing: “I am feeling like the gerbil on the outside of the wheel. Don’t know if I should keep running in place
I could have said, “I’m fine.” But when my friend called me back and asked how I was doing going into the 29th week of the COVID-19 pandemic, I said “Well, I’m sober.” “I am too,” she said. We both