First picture - playground at the park nearest my house.  If you're older than six you can't get on this playground equipment.  ...

April, May and June of each year are full of anniversaries of some of the worst tragedies I've experienced.  Some years I do better than...

It occurred to me the other day that I should write a book called, "Rules I'm Never Going to Follow Again."  At age 70 I'm...

Just came back from the Eureka Springs, Springtime in the Ozarks conference.  The weather was lovely and the speakers were entertaining and ...

Two weeks before the end of February I had my two week detox from the prison of the to do list I've lived in all my life.  I didn't ...

Karly is singing to the theme of Two and a Half Men.  (Visiting dogs) Kooper is playing with his toy. Caryn did my spring pedicure...

It's election time again which means the media is going crazy looking for stuff to report on that makes somebody look stupid and wrong -...

In order to have an enjoyable life, the author of FLOW believes (based on research), we need to discipline our minds to focus on the present...

After reading the books on shame, I started reading a book called, "FLOW:  The Psychology of Optimal Experience."  It seems to me ...

I just finished reading a couple of books on shame - what it is, what causes it, and how it affects us.  It's a subject I used to give a...

Flower shopping with Aaron Flower shopping with Aaron P.F. Chang's Kristin at P.F. Chang's Full moon.

Huge doses of steroids have put me back on my feet after a whole month of vertigo severe enough to keep me lying down with my eyes closed 98...

I guess most of my spiritual awakenings could be classified as waking up to the truth about myself.  In the past if I had "come to...

At a meeting a few days ago, the speaker mentioned Ron and how much help he was in getting sober.  I remember how Ron spent a lot of time he...

This was a gradual one.  I don't remember there being a moment in time when I had a flash of light and woke up, although there was one f...

Early in my recovery I read a lot of books trying to find a way to connect with a Higher Power.  One of them was "Love is Letting Go of...

Oh how I hated this one.  I was complaining and blaming to my sponsor about how awful my boyfriend was behaving.  She suggested I take his i...

Poinsettias last way past Christmas.  This one is a little bedraggled though. Below is the sweet potato vine is started months ago.  Just as...

This one absolutely amazed me.  I had someone in my life that walked into my house without knocking and another person who took any money I ...

When I had been in recovery about 9 months I realized that I had consistently done something for 9 whole months - I hadn't taken a drink...