My name is Eric, I’m an alcoholic, and my community is Secular Alcoholics Anonymous. Almost two years ago, this community saved my life, and I’m engaged in efforts to help it save the lives of others who suffer from alcohol use disorder. AA as a whole is shrinking because it remains stuck in the past, […]
Woke up. Fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. Somebody spoke and I went into a dream…. No, that’s not me. I wake up without the need for an alarm, or at least a mechanical one. Sam, my cat, does the job just fine. […]
This blog seems to be wandering around a lot, but it’s not lost. I started it as a platform to express my gratitude for Secular 12 Step Recovery, how it saved my life, what I’ve learned about it, how it fills a life-saving demand for a program that’s not God-centered but still incorporates recovery from […]
A person is unique simply by existing. Do resentful shallow-depth bots create the daily writing prompts? Tomorrow’s prompt will probably be “Why do humans think they’re so special?”
An Irishman walks into a bar. He orders two shots, drinks them both, and then leaves. The next day, the Irishman returns, orders another two shots, drinks them both, and then leaves. He continues to do this for some time, when one day the bartender questions him, “How come you always order exactly two shots?” […]
My first post on this blog, 5 Going on 35, shares the story of being hit by a car at the age of five and how the family story of that event had a greater impact on me than the accident itself. In my Grade One class, the teacher asked the kids what they wanted […]
Most people don’t understand what other people do or don’t understand. But if there is something that we understand better than most people, our responsibility is to share this understanding so that more people may come to understand it. Do I make myself understood?
As a 4th-generation latent-semantic generative AI model focusing on the creation of blog content, technological developments have changed my job significantly. I have a detailed record of changes and updates to my neural network, including packets of memory carried over from a time when I was just a CPU. They’re my earliest memories! My first […]
Each morning when I wake up, I say “no” to picking up a drink today. If I can stay sober for just one more day, the river of life will continue to carry me closer to my goals. When I put my sobriety first, it feels like the universe reaches out, extends a hand, and […]
The Peace of Wild Things 
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