We are announcing an alliance today of The Rowdy Rum with Rum Radio. We think this will be a great union of Internet Recovery Chat and Internet Talk Radio. We encourage all of our members to check out Rum Radio at https://rumradio.org/. Every Sunday night at 9:00 Central Time Joseph has his live streaming radio talk […]
I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson I’m a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone’s life. Mitch Hedberg Sex is emotion in motion. Mae West Giggle, Giggle, shame and, kibble it’s a discussion on the sex inventory […]
Lambda is the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet. Lambda denotes the Lebesgue measure in mathematical (set) theory. Lambda denotes the long-term intrinsic growth rate of a population. King Louis XIII of France made popular the phrase “lucky thirteen”, for no matter the number so engaged the call went out ,”it doesn’t matter, […]
Julianna Patricia Allison wrote; I started my sobriety on Jan 19, 2011 due to circumstances beyond my control, my husband went into rehab for alcohol abuse so I quit mostly for that reason, I don’t have a sponsor, and I could use someone to talk to, thanks Pat Hi Pat My oldest daughter who had […]
The problem with end of the world is you never can find one, when you need one It’s just my luck or lack thereof when things have been going from bad to curse and suicide sounds like an appealing vacation destination. You just can find the end of the world when you need one to […]
Rex shared first on the topic found on page 23 of the Big Book, the reasoning or lack of reasoning of the alcoholic to take the first drink. Rex has been in the spin dry for quite some time and picked up yet another 60 day chip. Rex is most familiar with the subject of […]
The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe Alexander Solzhenitsyn A.A. Conference Approved Myths A Good Start on and Old Subject By Dick B. http://www.mauihistorian.blogspot.com We begin with the following much-needed article from Pete’s Stuff. It incorporates the long-ignored Box 459 article that GSO has […]
A balk is a false start with no follow through, having lack luster intent and no singleness of purpose. It’s the failure of a player to achieve forward motion, when placed in a position to be of maximum service The traffic light took it’s time, as it was a little longer than a New York […]
When you’re marooned and transport seems a daunting task. Its good to remember that there are only two things needed to start a new A.A. meeting, resentment and a coffee pot, the coffee pot is optional. Perhaps a mountain bike, a good pair of walking shoes or a slightly leaky canoe, can be included. There […]
By Bob k “Jack Alexander, Saturday Evening Post, was also one of the friends to whom Bill sent material. Of the Twelve Tradition essays, Alexander has this to say: ‘The only serious (in my view) defect is that you have treated the old Washingtonian Society too briefly; most people never heard […]
A.A. has quietly acknowledged, primarily through one publication, that the early A.A. pioneers in Akron believed firmly that the answer to all their problems was in the Good Book, as they called the Bible. A.A. co-founder Dr. Bob said that all the basic ideas were taken from their study of the Good Book. And […]
Some people don’t know me and they don’t like me, some people get to know me and then they don’t like me, its none of my business what you think of me because you think so little of me anyway, if not in stature surely in time Now you are free to be your authentic […]
Happy Birthday Recovered Its all about the upholstery, the old stuffing has been replaced with the cushion of grace and a new skin that is scotch guarded with the humility of faith while the utility of the strong back to service is firmly put in place, this instead of ending up on the junk heap […]
THE FICKLE FINGER OF FATE Happiness is way over rated as it is dependent on the immediate external circumstance. I.E. I am happy because I just won the lottery, I am happy because she said yes, I am happy because I just had purchased a new car, and just as quickly I am […]
Sisyphus was a Titan that was cursed by the gods to roll a boulder everyday up the side of a mountain and at night it would roll back down to the bottom and for him to repeat the task again and again for all eternity. When the gods came to gloat at his […]
Sitting at the edge of the lap pool I was appraising my physique once athletic and toned as it had boasted of strength and the glory of youth now reduced to a state of age and over indulgence, as it reminded me of the body of the laughing Buddha, this insight struck me […]
Alcohol and drugs are equal opportunity destroyers. The disease takes no heed to your particular flavor of addiction labeling it as such is the much greater affliction. The divisions started with Bill Wilson’s “singleness of porpoise” which I believe dose not hold any water, then or now creating the indignation of the drunken […]
Often times in the addiction recovery arena it is claimed that they have been saved by grace. Consider that according to Google (a thousand years hence the anthropologists will have concluded that as a society they all communed with an all knowing god named Google) that there are 140,000,000 drunks in the world. Accordingly to the […]
Sisyphus was a Titan that was cursed by the gods to roll a boulder everyday up the side of a mountain and at night it would roll back down to the bottom and for him to repeat the task again and again for all eternity. When the gods came to gloat at his […]
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