A Song Not Scored For Breathing

"It never delivers, does it?" I said that after she blurted out in passing that she was just itching to go spend some money. When ...

Every time I open one of my daily reflection books I see my bookmark which says, "Look up and live." It's such a good motto fo...

Today was six weeks since I've been to an AA meeting with my home group. This past week one of the members called me up to see how I was...

A full day of appointments from late morning until late tonight. I'm grateful that's even a possibility. With any luck I'll be a...

Despite spending most of my blog time analyzing life to death I'm getting better at not doing so every waking moment. Sometimes when I c...

I feel like I'm tiptoeing in here trying not to get caught. Did you know typing could feel like that? The resident Energizer Bunny is r...

Earlier this morning I thought to myself, it would take less energy to lay my head on the key board and cry than to lift my arms and type . ...

A letter marked confidential arrived for me in the mail yesterday. How weird it was to see my own name on an envelope in my own handwriting....

It's been a beautiful gift of a day. When I first went back to AA I chose a home group called Gratitude 24/7. At the time I thought peop...

"I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide...

My procrastinating ways are going to catch up with me today. Tomorrow I'm off to a women's weekend. Today will be laundry, lists and...

No snow. Beautiful sunshine. Frost on the grass. A new day. My AA meeting yesterday was uplifting. So good to have a place to go where I ca...

I turned a corner yesterday. Simply and with gratitude. I've been feeling as if I'd learned nada, nothing in treatment. Felt like I...

"9. When you feel like running away, let yourself feel the scare. Think about what you fear will happen and decide what you need to do....

Saturday afternoon it rained leaves all over the sky and I soaked in the beauty and absurdity of the sight. As I watched the trees do their...

"What do you need?" she'd ask. Inside I would think to myself....how the fuck do I know. You tell me. Nothing was the word I ...

"...our greatest strength was forged in our worst pain and suffering. It was precisely those "worst times" that hollowed out ...

Our Essential Nature by Christina Grof "The process of hitting bottom, of releasing the illusion of control over our situation, is a m...

"Put a smile on your face." I turned as I heard a father say those words this past weekend to his young son, a boy about 8 years o...

Yesterday my addictions beckoned. I circled their edges, looking forward and back while trying to wrestle my way out of here and now. Graced...