Writings

Since the year 336AD, December 25th has been set aside to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the inspiration for the Christian...

There is something refreshing about a clean, organized space.  We feel better when the pieces of our lives are prepped and polished. ...

Nothing happens by chance, we believe. Each step has been part of the plan. The good. The bad. The smiles. The tears. The joys. The...

“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,...

We sat defeated. With heads buried in our hands, the darkest of darkness prevailed. Only our willingness to pry open our eyes, to seek...

“And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone, even alcohol. For by this time, sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested...

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...

Forgiveness, by definition, is the action or process of forgiving or being forgiven. To forgive, as defined by Oxford, is to “stop...

We remember with clarity the conflict that the above phrase stirred up early in our recovery. How could anybody be grateful for the...

Something was wrong with our wiring. The check engine light glared from our dashboard, and we weren't even alarmed. We were in trouble,...

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...

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...

Uncle Eddie was an alcoholic. He would come to family celebrations drink a little, laugh a lot, drink more, do or say something stupid...

We “wished” to get clean for years. Countless “wants” resulted in constant failures. Good intentions evaporated into repeated collapse....

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? ...

“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...

Billions of dollars (25.9 in 2022) are taken in annually at theater box offices around the globe, while television revenue exceeds 200...

The “casting of lots” has a long and storied record in human history (including Biblical occurrences), and the use of lotteries has a...

“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...

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...