Five years ago, I was lying in the ICU after my stroke when a nurse walked past my room and said, “You don’t belong here.” I didn’t look like I belonged in the ICU. The clot-busting treatment had worked. My speech improved significantly from when I was in the ER, although slow and struggling to […]
Month: August 2026
Independence of the Spirit: A Different Perspective
I was thinking about the phrase independence of the spirit the other day. It’s one of those sayings in AA that I’ve heard for years, but if someone asked me to explain what it meant, I couldn’t have. I wasn’t sure what it actually looked like in my everyday life. For most of my life, […]
The Joys of Recovery: How Sobriety Gave Me a Life I Never Knew Was Possible
I walked into AA to learn how to drink without consequences, and instead I was given the gift of a joyful life.