When You Have a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail


My husband Mark and I may be spending too much time talking about issues related to addiction and recovery, as it has lead to a series of double takes in recent years…

A friend told me that a computer geek she works with is a member of SCA. “You’re married to a geek. Are they all into that kind of thing?” she asked. I gasped, thinking she was talking about Sexual Compulsives Anonymous, a 12 Step recovery group for sex addicts. Was she asking if sex addiction was a geek thing? Um, no. It turns out she was talking about the…

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Armed With the Facts


Last night was really a fantastic DA meeting. It didn’t start off that way. Someone shared at the top of the meeting about one of the things that every consumer goes through but that are problematic for people who spend to change how they feel; the get rich in real estate seminar. Pretty powerful stuff. Other people shared the “opportunities” they had nearly fallen victim to during the week.

It came my time to share and I shared that I had been presented with a real estate opportunity myself; not the “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” workshop my friend bought (then returned),…

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