I had more to do this week than last week and I had more energy to do everything needed. Funny how that seems to work out! I'm feeling a...

Up and down and grateful for weird things - that's recovery from surgery. Yesterday they took 38 staples out of my right leg and 6 out ...

Interesting - sometimes I mentally forget the anniversary of my son's death 29 years ago but my body never does. That's the explana...

Today was the day I didn't need to rest any more. I've been sleeping off the drugs but I'm finished. I tried to rest because I s...

I'm not sure why - but I woke up (late) with that broken heart feeling I used to have all the time. It may just be the effect of narcot...

So grateful to be home! In my own bed. With my cat. With my own food. I feel a lot better. My legs are the same length. My left leg ga...

Tomorrow is the day before the surgery to fix the broken hardware in my leg and do another bone graft. I got the really important stuff don...

We all make choices in our lives on a daily basis. We may not realize it, howeer, because these choices are too often unconscious and passi...

One of the greatest gifts I've received from my recovery program is the ability to manage emotions - especially the kind of emotions tha...

The war on drugs... don't they remember about prohibition? They focused on solving the problems with the effects of alcohol on humans b...

I'm reading something that makes a distinction between emotions and impulses. Good! Impulsive behavior is always a disaster in my expe...

What we all want most is to be loved and accepted. Somehow we get all twisted up and refuse to love and accept until the other person loves...

I'm at the beginning of another class for recovering people based on the second book by Earnie Larson, Stage II Relationships. I'm ...

What a great time I had last weekend. I drove to Dallas to visit my daughter's family. Friday night was a graduation party for my middle...

Here it is about two weeks since I've written here. As I've said before I don't write when I feel lousy. I think I should but ...

It's the one thing I can't explain about 12 Step meetings - the magic. I have a friend that calls it angel dust that falls on us f...

Another of my old poems: I liked it when it was simple I just wanted to get what I wanted I usually didn't get it but it was SO simple N...

"I will rest from my thoughts. I will give my attention wholly to the present. Therein will come solutions, and when least expected....

I went with my son-in-law's mother to Dallas to help celebrate my son-in-law's 50th birthday. It was a great weekend and a great par...

I hate writing when I feel crummy. I have been feeling crummy. And I've been feeling crummy for no particular reason which usually mea...