HOPE IS DOPE

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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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