I really hate it that any attitude I take that isn't acceptance is self-pity.  I've tried and tried to escape the truth of this.  I ...

One of the benefits of living alone and journaling every day is that the ideas that pop into my head often get recorded - if they seem to be...

Once I leave "stuff" on a surface, the next thing I know, there's a whole lot more "stuff."  This is particularly tr...

I am the queen of clutter working toward being a minimalist.  Ever so often I notice that "stuff" has piled up everywhere again.  ...

I'm really sure about the changes I want to make in my life.  I've never lied to myself about it - not even for one moment.  But som...

For the past year I've had a 32 year old roommate.  She "ran away from home" (a difficult situation in her marriage) and event...

Let's see now - I've been practicing the principles of the program on a daily basis for over 29 years.  You would think I would have...

I heard in a meeting a few months ago - "When I go to sleep at night, everything I've learned in the program falls out of my head a...

November is national novel writing month.  I can't remember where I heard about it but it was at least two years ago.  It's a not-ve...

When we were going to counseling - my attempt to get Ron to take better care of his health so that he wouldn't die which didn't work...

I think my brain is put together incorrectly.  Luckily I have lots and lots of friends with the same problem so I get plenty of understandin...

It's a wonderful thing to be able to travel through Montana, Utah, Washington, most of California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma fro...

Coast line seen from the Pacific coast highway. Me at another location on the coast.  And then Eric at the same location. Our first ...

Sunset on the journey   Same sunset at a rest stop in New Mexico   Mountain in the distance - forgot its name.     Anot...

First stop - Lame Deer, Montana, for the 13 Grandmothers' Gathering.  The grandmothers are shaman's (healers) from indigenious peop...

A long time ago there was a guy in the recovery world who was elderly and ill.  He had a lot of respect from most who knew him for telling t...

All those spiritual gurus tell us that forgiveness is the answer to everything.  When I first began to hear this I was in my 20s.  It irri...

For most of my life I was skinny except for a tiny while in my teens when I was addicted to grape pop and barbequed potato chips.  Until aro...

 Thien's teddy bears being cared for by in-laws during the honeymood.  Well taken care of. Slide from Bec's graduation party. ...

I've had several deaths of people close to me, and recently I've been to several funerals.  You would think that the person who died...