recovery
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First, credit where it belongs: Books4Free exists because of Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, OpenStax, and eBible.org. Those teams did the hard work — decades of digitizing, proofing, and formatting the world’s public-domain books, and giving them away. I’m standing on their shoulders. What I’m adding is a reading experience around their work: an AI study…
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How a 25-year volunteer translation found a new home on Books4Free, why we kept the name Yahweh, and where this road eventually leads. A few weeks ago I was looking at the reading stats for our King James Bible — the most-read book on Books4Free, and one of the first we ever made fully free…
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I got sober in Atlanta, GA in 2005 -2006 initially, and then over the next decade, and the early days were filled with Woody Davis and I shooting the shit. Woody was one of a kind, and I’d be lying if I said we always got along, but we did get along most of the…
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It would not be my last. I wrote a post after we learned the news of Osama Bin Liden’s death that went viral shortly, and now that I’m thinking about it I wrote an article that MSNBC posted after 9/11, so I guess I’m selling myself a little short. The AA Boy Meets AA Girl…
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Hello world! Its been a very long time since I’ve written anything at all on here and I went through some massive changes, spiritually, geographically, and even matrimonially! I moved to Florida, became Catholic, albeit not a very good one, and married a woman I love with a 3 year old daughter who is now…
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Outside of getting sober, the darkest nights of my life were after I got divorced. There is just something so breathtakingly horrible about losing your family. For so long they had been everything I’d lived for, fought for, breathed for, and then one day, they are gone, and it’s just an entirely different bleak world.…
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If I’m honest when I write, I don’t have to fear what’s been published. Especially if I’m writing passionately about moods and emotions which can change like the winds. The cool thing is that the internet is permanent, as in forever, not going anywhere, and it is conceivable that this blog will exist for my…
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The recovered drug addict/alcoholic such as myself, is apt to find that even without drugs and alcohol, he is still quite capable of obsessing over certain things. With 4.5 years of real sobriety now, I’ve obsessed over everything from WW2 strategy games, to my book Hippopotamus Sea which took three years to write and finish.…
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funny… copy and paste these links regarding the Twain and MLK quotes: http://gizmodo.com/#!5798029/those-mlk-and-mark-twain-quotes-youre-spreading-on-facebook-and-twitter-are-fake Haha, even funnier, the original quoter had it right, but people didn’t see her quotation notes: http://www.good.is/post/that-martin-luther-king-quote-is-fake-use-these-instead/ Wow, and the Twain one, of which I could have sworn I read in his autobiography, this is what I found almost unanimously everywhere I…
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Few people really do their own thinking. As Mark Twain said, the only original thought written down was either Adam or Eve. That being said, too much deferring of your thoughts, or living by other people’s opinions can be hugely detrimental to your life, and most especially if you’re in the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.…
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