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Informal Check on Hearing
My sponsor has a great and appropriate sense of humour. I was talking with him and raised what I thought ...
Gary and the Hula Hoop
It was Tuesday night, The Huddle, our mens’ meeting. The subject of the meeting was acceptance. There were many good ...
When Drinking Had One Speed
“When I arrived at AA. I was screaming down the highway the gas pedal jammed at full throttle. The tachometer ...
Program Texting
The subject of the meeting was - “How It Works.” The shares were outstanding. Men talked about how their lives ...
Spiritual Parapraxis
Parapraxis, or a Freudian slip, is a speech mistake. A mistake in the words we use, a mistake that might ...
Churches may be God’s House
We love our holidays in the deep south. I recall one day in particular. We were driving through the Low ...
In My Way and In My Way
The meeting topic was Step #3, “turning our will and our lives over to the care of God.” An AA ...
Slapped Up the Side of the Head
The meeting was organized around a circle of tables. Well-established, there were many old-timers. The meeting opened in the usual ...
Cruise Control
My AA friend introduced himself in the usual fashion. Then he shared, “you would think from all the news reports ...
What Happened Before What Happened Happened
An AA brother shared, “When I was drinking, I would often wake up hungover and wonder what the hell happened?” ...
Experience is Gold
The young couple, only months into their marriage, had words. The husband, thinking, “my wife is unmanageable,” called his sponsor ...
Complacency is worse than resentment (Part 2)
Last week I shared a series of “Hey Martha” factoids about patients not following medically prescribed treatment protocols, comparing those ...
Complacency is worse than resentment (Part 1)
Years ago, I produced and starred in a cable TV show. I learned the importance of, “Hey Martha.” A “Hey ...
Make the World Work for Me
For those of us of a certain age, John F. Kennedy is a strong memory. A memory of a modern ...
Plowing our defects
I had a friend, a grain farmer in Alberta. He had a large tract of land, two square miles, or ...
Experience the solution with experience, the solution
A young lawyer and his mentor were enjoying their regular lunch. The older lawyer, a senior partner in the firm, ...
