My youngest adopted daughter and my foster son have been living in small group homes in the community for 20 years now (since they left Hiss...

I've just passed my 70th birthday and my 28th sobriety birthday!  I owe thanks to many, many, many people and God for these celebrations...

Yesterday I spent the day in Joplin because I had gathered some items and cash to help the folks affected by the storm.  One of my classmate...

"The trouble is STAYING clean, taming the pit bull that's been chewing on your innards your entire life, the one you've been br...

Here's the story as best I understand it.  Some poor crazy guy with several guns kidnapped a guy in the little town called Prue and ende...

Serenity Project Day 5 :  Much of what I'm studying these days has to do with how we human beings think.  Nothing I've read yet ev...

Day 4:   In my morning reading there was a page about how our moods can change based on what's going on around us.  However, being so vu...

Serenity Project Day 2 & 3:  I read the above statement in one of my morning readings today.  I love it because it sums up for me the t...

In one of Pearl Buck's autobiographies she describes how she felt after she and her family ran away from China during the revolution.  S...

I am amazed at the weather the world is dealing with.  This time the disaster was close to home and I have friends who were in the middle of...

One of my friends has been sharing her daily gratitude list with me from time to time.  I am always inspired by what she puts on that list. ...

Short verse of a poem by Mary Oliver (one of the best love poems I've ever seen): So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful cryi...

I enjoyed the strange looking guy tell me in the Walmart parking lot that my leg was healed by the beautiful healing mother - one of the hig...

I'm still listening to an audio book by Byron Katie, but it's the second one now.  I finished listening to the first one during the ...

 View of the school area  Inside what was the hospital unit where my friend's son died. The old administration building. ...

Spring bouquets Bec on spring break playing with Kristin's baby toys Mary Lou and other classmates at the last gathering of the class o...

Our books study group is trying to grasp the idea that all of our unhappiness is a result of the stories we tell ourselves.  Maybe everythin...

I used to be very lonely despite the love and companionship of friends and family.  I remember thinking how weird that was.  The problem was...

In yesterday's meeting I got the paragraph in the 12 & 12 that talks about how hard Step 5 is - telling our secrets to another trust...

I think a lot about the mistakes we humans make in relationships because I talk to a lot of people who are having difficulties.  As I've...