I’m a writer, a father and an alcoholic. I believe punctuation matters, redemption exists and that AA works. This is where I write about addiction, recovery and the stories in between:
And that’s what I love about AA—the way we tell each other our stories. Our stories are devastating and heartbreaking, they’re full of loss and regret and grief. There are times when the stories are nearly impossible to tell or to hear and times that we can barely say the words aloud. But we sit in rooms of near-strangers and tell them. We share the most shameful, painful and sordid episodes of our lives, we expose ourselves to our very core and sometimes we laugh and sometimes we cry, but what we always do, all of us, in every room, we treat those stories with reverence. We treat those hard stories so gently and we try to find something in them to to grab on to and sometimes, just sometimes, that’s enough to save us.