ANOTHER TWO-STEP DANCE

Step meetings are usually weekly meetings where a chapter about a Step is read from Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, and then folks talk about what was read.  Next week, next Step (two weeks for Twelve, usually), then back to the start.  […]

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MIND OVER MATTER

Oh, yeah, do I love me some magical thinking.  I’m over the edge in zero time, once I put on my lucky hat watchin the game.  Or when I know if the next car down the street is red, I’m buyin a […]

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RULES OF WHICH GAME?

Once I was around my homegroup long enough, the free ride was over!  You better get into Service, buddy.  It don’t matter if it’s Ashtrays, Brooms, and Coffee, or Assemblies, Boards, and Committees, but you gotta learn your ABCs. Now, I’d heard […]

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GET IN THE CAR

An oldtimer, well-known in the neighborhood, tells this story where he’d called his sponsor just before he left the city.  (These were the days before cell phones.)  He wanted to drink.  Sponsor talks him out of it.  He gets on the train […]

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THE M-D-R

If y’buy almost any packaged food in America, by law it comes with a label like a chemistry exam cheat-sheet.  “Nutrition Facts.”  Nowadays, the label includes a list called the Daily Value Percent, tellin you how much of certain vitamins, minerals and […]

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