December 2020

FOR KEEPS When I started coming to meetings, there were certain things I embraced, and other stuff I just ignored. For starters, I knew I wasn’t going anywhere.  This was for keeps. To that end, I stopped wearing anything  with booze-based logos (I sacrificed  my baseball shirt collection featuring beer logos), and I immediately tossed […]

If you’re anything like me (and you probably are), you’ve become very adept at hiding in plain sight.  I always hid behind sarcasm, raunchy humor, exaggeration and anything else to avoid honest to goodness communication with another human being. My drinking and drugging began in earnest by the time I was 13.  Starting then, I