I was sitting at the bus stop many years ago watching impatiently for the bus. I had been patient for so long—taking the bus to the grocery store, lugging…

Please free my thinking of self-will, self-seeking, dishonesty, and wrong motives.—PARAPHRASED FROM ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS There is a difference between owning our power to take care of ourselves, as part…

“Say when,” my friend says as she refills my glass, meaning she wants me to tell her when I have enough juice. Saying when is a simple idea that…

For the next twenty-four hours . . . In recovery, we live life one day at a time, an idea requiring an enormous amount of faith. We refuse to…

Chip turned the rented four-wheel drive Chevy Blazer off the road and into an open field. The three of us, Chip, Andy, and myself, were in Florida on a…

This prayer is based on a section of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous: Thank you for keeping me straight yesterday. Please help me stay straight today. For the…

There’s a force out there, whether you call it destiny or use some other words, that brings people together who are meant to be together. It’s the butterfly story.…

I was in treatment for chemical dependency. All I wanted to do was get high, cop some dope, do what I’d done for the past twelve years—obliterate myself. As…