Month: June 2019
HAPPY, JOYOUS, AND FREE…YOU’RE SURE?
If you spend much time around AA, you’re pretty sure to hear the three adjectives together, in that order: happy, joyous, and free. Golly, who wouldn’t want that? It’s an insider code, too, like, “are you a friend of Bill’s?” Of course, […]
GOT PLANS?
Gotta plan? Good for you. Not me. Avoid em. My sponsor asked me once, and only once, about my goals. “Goals?” I said. “I don’t have any goals. I got schemes, and I got fantasies. I don’t know nothin bout goals.” Maybe […]
Funny word, dope. When I was a kid, old folks meant glue, like for a model airplane. Sometimes they meant information, like news. We all used it to mean someone silly or stupid. After I was older, it meant drugs you couldn’t […]