Tom, in your string, makes a good point. Fill your time, especially early on. Eventually you’ll find ways to not have to cram every second of your day with an activity, but for now it beats having nothing to keep you company but your own thoughts. Once upon a time, few things would terrify me more than the impending…

I don’t know if this helps, or not, but keep in mind that not every heavy drinker is an alcoholic—they’re just a heavy drinker. The primary difference boils down to this: a heavy drinker can either stop or moderate given enough personal impetus to do so. An alcoholic can’t moderate at all and eventually will get to…

It’s our age-old selfishness at work: I may not be much, but I’m all I think about.

Unfortunate that you did not receive the support you needed in the group(s) you attended. Personally, I used counseling and AA, and was eventually able to stop using the counseling. AA, as a whole, is very clear that they are not the only solution and fully encourage anyone who wants to try another way to do so. You…

Sarah, a good article, and series, all around. One unsolicited suggestion: please leave your relationship as a member of AA out of the articles, as it is a violation of the 11th Tradition against public level anonymity breaks. Bill W’s letter to Yale on 2/2/54 explains why this is so necessary better than anything I…

Weather is my Desert Island Album.

So, I’ve found that the only places which sell no bullshit olive oil are specialty stores, like this one:

They have both kinds of music there. Country AND Western.

Prince wrote the song...

“Where are you from?”

I used to live in Albuquerque, and the cops there were notorious for driving roughly 5mph below the highway speed limit (this was city cops, not troopers on rural interstate) so they could watch a whole pack of idiots pile up behind them and refuse to pass. There was only one time that I was able to sneak my way past…

But, I thought if I bought The Ultimate Driving Machine, or a car that was Engineered to Move the Human Spirit, and if I was paying an extra 20-30k for the privilege, that meant I was buying a “better” car!

This is the reality of the “American Dream”. Anyone who thinks that voting for Hillary Clinton will change any of this is delusional, at best; unconscionably stupid, at worst.

Put...that coffee...DOWN! Coffee is for Carriers, only.

It’s not a myth—it’s a mythter.

Hold on, dumbass. You equate the word “thug” as a stand in for the n-word, so you get butthurt that these people are called thugs. But...none of these guys look black to me. They look like thugs. Go back to your safe space. I’m sure this paragraph was a trigger for you, and for that, I apologize.

Dude, there is NOTHING racist about Thug. During some of the race protests people rightly called some of the people thugs, because they were. Then others tried to negate that by saying “thug” was code for the N-word. No. Thug is code for “violent asshole”. They come in all races.

How is it used these days? Guys riding in a pack mentality, trying to act tough, are thugs.

Oh, for certain, people do have a predisposition to one addiction or another—statistically, 10% of the population. The primary predictor, which has been shown through several thousand studies over the years, is family history (genetics). It’s not the only predictor, but it is far and away more common in someone with…

Yeah, this is the sort of phrase that gets so engrained into the common language that eventually people don’t realize that it has no basis in fact. Unfortunately, there probably isn’t any way to erase this phrase from common usage, so I simply make sure I don’t use it at all, and hope for the best.