Writings

Mikey is taking a break from writing. God willing, I will take it up again soon. Thanks to all the faithful readers who have followed...

We didn't cause it; we can't control it; we can't cure it The Three C’s of Al-Anon Living with people is tough—just ask our wives. ...

We have been so many things and people throughout our lives. At times, we were a son, grandson, godson, brother, cousin, friend, and...

Water freezes to ice when the air temperature dips below 33 degrees Fahrenheit, while rain turns to snow at 32 degrees. We don’t have to...

School was tough for us. We learned despite ourselves. We could have put more effort into the A’s and R’s. There were distractions,...

The first sip was painful. We may have thrown up a little. Everything about it was uncomfortable. The taste was less than what we...

Working with other alcoholics is the secret sauce in a successful recovery plan. This, we found, is sometimes not an easy undertaking. ...

Our houses are equipped with battery-operated smoke detectors. They signal us should they identify trouble. The sensors in these...

Standing outside the doors of a gym for the first time is stressful. How had we let ourselves get so out of shape? Can the lifelong...

In our youth, we thought little about our lifespan. We lived in the moment. We were carefree and accepting of most that would be thrown...

One little unexpected can ruin a good role. For non-drinkers, occasional sippers, or full-fledged alcoholics, bumps in the road can throw...

Life is not a puzzle box. We are not privy to a view of the final product. More often than not, we get overwhelmed with the scrambled...

“Catching lightning in a bottle” is an idiom that means achieving something very difficult or unlikely.  We feel that we have caught the...

Life was not all we wanted it to be. We needed a change; we were desperate for a pivot. Life had become a series of disappointments and...

In an era marked by war, assassinations, the civil rights movement, space travel, and music festivals, the 1960s radically differed from...

Did you get any new numbers this week? Who did you help in the last seven days? How many meetings did you attend recently? Are there new...

Our relationship with shame started in our early years. Rooted in what others conveyed, we learned right from wrong from their...

The Collatz Conjecture asks:  Starting with any positive integer n, the sequence n,n/2,3n+1,… eventually reaches 1.  The simple problem...

We were celebrities in our own minds.  It didn’t matter that we had been isolated for the previous twenty-three hours; we were the stars...

According to multiple scientific sources, the egg comes before the chicken, but doesn’t a chicken have to lay a chicken egg?  We could...