RAW

“Caliente!” Absolutely an understatement I thought as I nodded my head in the direction of my Latin co-worker. Even hotter for me, four days out of the crack pipe. The hard work feels good,

Syd

Learning to love and care for yourself is a topic that often comes up in Al-Anon. I’ve heard people share about how they never had any time to love themselves or take care of themselves because they were always taking care of others.

Robert Hiaasen

After a six-month absence, an ailing Father Joseph Martin returned recently to what has been called the Betty Ford Clinic of the East Coast - Father Martin’s Ashley. Arriving in his wheelchair, he waited for the applause and standing ovation to yield before speaking

Tlhe Junky's Wife

Then she opened up a book of poems - And Handed it to me - Written by an Italian poet - From the thirteenth century - And every one of them words rang true - And glowed like a burning coal -

Chris

“The only concept of god that I believed in at all, when I got here, was the God of Unintended Consequences,” Robert said, sitting across the table from me eating burritos at a taco stand at one o’clock in the morning. “Every time I drank bad stuff happened.

William C. Moyers

In the past few months, I’ve had an opportunity to speak to students at a high school for adults in Minnesota and criminal defendants in the judicial system in Texas. The students know almost nothing about addiction. The felons know everything.

LaRee

I haven’t written in a few days because I’ve been enjoying a spur-of-the-moment vacation in Colorado. My sober friends B & C invited me to their family cabin in the Northern Rockies for the week.

Martha Woodroof

God and I can only partner in any useful way in the real world, and the reality is that the real world often makes me uncomfortable. I’ve certainly done my share of damage by shying away from my own discomfort. Back in the early nineties when I was first climbing out of addiction,