Mike and Glenn
It’s okay to not be okay
“Maybe it's okay if I'm not okay” lyrics from Maybe it’s Okay by We Are Messengers. A few yesterday’s ago, we were broken, isolated,...
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Mike and Glenn
- 5 days ago
- 4 min
Get healthy – Stay Healthy
We sat defeated. With heads buried in our hands, the darkest of darkness prevailed. Only our willingness to pry open our eyes, to seek...
Mike and Glenn
- Dec 3
- 4 min
Pain to Purpose
“And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone, even alcohol. For by this time, sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested...
Mike and Glenn
- Nov 29
- 4 min
Sobriety can be scary shit
In our youth, there was an old scary story or movie reference (When a Stranger Calls; 1979) that went around where an assumed killer kept...
Mike and Glenn
- Nov 26
- 5 min
Feel like letting go
Forgiveness, by definition, is the action or process of forgiving or being forgiven. To forgive, as defined by Oxford, is to “stop...
Mike and Glenn
- Nov 22
- 3 min
A grateful alcoholic
We remember with clarity the conflict that the above phrase stirred up early in our recovery. How could anybody be grateful for the...
Mike and Glenn
- Nov 19
- 4 min
Broken yet Repairable
Something was wrong with our wiring. The check engine light glared from our dashboard, and we weren't even alarmed. We were in trouble,...
Mike and Glenn
- Nov 15
- 4 min
Schooled in Sobriety
The average cost of attendance for a student living on campus at a public 4-year in-state institution is $26,027 per year or $104,108...
Mike and Glenn
- Nov 12
- 3 min
Hope in a box
All around the mulberry bush The monkey chased the weasel; The monkey thought it was all in fun... Pop! goes the weasel. This post goes...
Mike and Glenn
- Nov 8
- 4 min
Utopia today
Uncle Eddie was an alcoholic. He would come to family celebrations drink a little, laugh a lot, drink more, do or say something stupid...
Mike and Glenn
- Nov 5
- 3 min
Recovery is Action
We “wished” to get clean for years. Countless “wants” resulted in constant failures. Good intentions evaporated into repeated collapse....
Mike and Glenn
- Nov 1
- 3 min
How are you doing?
How many times are we asked the above title sentence? How many times do we ask? Does anybody want the real answer out in the universe? ...
Mike and Glenn
- Oct 29
- 3 min
The Power of Positive Self-talk
“You can't tell me what to do.” This phrase echoed through our heads and passed through our lips early on in life and, honestly, persists...
Mike and Glenn
- Oct 25
- 3 min
What is your story?
Billions of dollars (25.9 in 2022) are taken in annually at theater box offices around the globe, while television revenue exceeds 200...
Mike and Glenn
- Oct 22
- 3 min
The winning ticket
The “casting of lots” has a long and storied record in human history (including Biblical occurrences), and the use of lotteries has a...
Mike and Glenn
- Oct 18
- 4 min
We are recovering alcoholics!
“You'll stop caring what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.” David Foster Wallace We hide behind a veil of...
Mike and Glenn
- Oct 15
- 3 min
Fearless and Thorough
Back in our day, we spent a lot of time in fantasy. In retrospect, we were so far from what was the reality that we might as well have...
Mike and Glenn
- Oct 13
- 4 min
The art of healing
When we were young, and Hallmark was beyond our budget, we would craft art in a card and proudly present the imperfect product to our...
Mike and Glenn
- Oct 11
- 3 min
Baking in Honesty
A 4.75-pound tub of Pillsbury Cookie Dough makes up to 76 cookies, according to multiple web sources. Our own delicious research proved...
Mike and Glenn
- Oct 8
- 4 min
Time for the Pupa
We are not scientists. Heck, we are not even good sobers some days. Recently, however, we became sober scientists, as the topic of our...
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