Confronting Isolation: The Power of Step Five

This image kinda shocks me, but it also makes me laugh. Am I hiding around the finger-of-fate-in-fear, or just the clear point of the finger-of-fuck-you? Leave me alone. Question mark with exclamatory defiance. This is how I try to reconcile the beating around the bush of looking at myself (personal inventory of the Fourth Step) …

Finding God in Unexpected Places: AA Insights

If you’ve never heard about AA–like me in when I was 39 years old, God showed up and brought me to meetings and the AA literature to find a new way of life. If you’d have asked me in my twenties or thirties if I would ever hold a book in divine reverence like a …