A Recovery Tale

Once, there was a Being, our Friend, shining brightly. It frolicked and played, reveled and mourned. It lived – pulsing…

life lived with color

denial is a bully, an instinctual artist born of fear and anger, eight-limbed, forty fingered, it uses its palette of…

I went home recently. It was the first time I have ever visited my hometown abstinent and sober. It was…

Today is day 364 of consistent, continuous abstinence. Day 1. Day 3. Day 46. Day 59. They were all were…

Fat Tuesday, 2017 I moved to New Orleans with my family in 2014. I never suspected moving to a city…

One the first blogs I wrote was about surrender — twice . Surrender is integral to working the 12 steps…

I had my 6 month anniversary on November 4th. It is quite surreal to me that I have been consistently…

Disguised, you perched Upon the curved husk of a fallen leaf, Faded to brown. You hid by closing your wings,…

The scale this morning at the doctor’s office confirmed my suspicion that I have released 100 pounds since beginning OA…

For the first time since entering the OA rooms nearly 2 years ago, I have 90 days of abstinence. I…