recovery
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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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Vacuum of loss, A faithful sidearm. But failure lingers, Cries out in alarms. Death beckons of finality, Lost words irrelevant. Like smoke, memories, reality, Opportunity lost heaven-sent? Regret but wasted thought, Time flows relentless. For every second, won and fought, Your harshness purely groundless. Amends for amends, A downward spiral spins. Eye for an eye…
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It was fitting that after a long day worrying over a woman, over yet another situation I have absolutely zero control of, a friend of mine called and offered me tickets to an Opera performance of Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” which translated means, “All women are like that”, I’m told but upon researching a little…
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Temporary Empty Should that teardrop reverberate in the emptiness? Would that spark ignite the void? For that which felt like loneliness, Was preparation for this noise. Explosions need space to expand, Love was never lost, just reorganizing. Exponential tidal wave, emotional reprimand: Be it real and true, Then patience will allow it growth, No jealousy…
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