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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 09-10-2016, 01:35 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 9,646
Posted By honeydumplin
A Great, Laughing Love

When I was about eleven years old, some friends of my parents, who were devout Baptists, took my sister and me and their own kids to one of those hell-and-brimstone, evangelist tent meetings. The...
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 08-12-2016, 05:05 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 9,646
Posted By honeydumplin
sober stick figure

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/features/weekend/4092641-amber-tozer-pens-one-funniest-books-alcoholism-youll-ever-read
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 07-12-2016, 06:34 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 9,646
Posted By honeydumplin
obit for Adele Donovan

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/07/11/adele-donovan-longtime-advocate-for-women-struggling-with-alcoholism-dies-at-91/
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 07-03-2016, 07:07 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 9,646
Posted By honeydumplin
one woman's story

http://cullmansense.com/articles/2016/07/02/addiction-alcoholism-and-consequences-being-life-party-part-6
Forum: Recovery Topics and Questions 06-17-2016, 05:03 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 3,476
Posted By honeydumplin
My sponsor usually tells me exactly what God...

My sponsor usually tells me exactly what God needs me to hear.

Somewhere in the advice phase of our conversation regarding such grave conditions, the big book phrase, "as only the dying can be,"...
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 04-30-2016, 05:18 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 8,839
Posted By honeydumplin
Alcoholism and the field of medicine

The following are drugs currently used to treat alcoholism.

This list is strictly for informational purposes:
Declinol, Thiamine by injection, Naltrexone (Revia), Chlordiazepoxide (Librium),...
Forum: New Member Check In 04-26-2016, 05:05 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 2,331
Posted By honeydumplin
Here's a quote from the daily this morning that...

Here's a quote from the daily this morning that helped me.
Congrats, and hang in there.
--kd

Hour To Hour - Book - Quote

One thing you will learn in early recovery from addiction, is that...
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 03-31-2016, 05:09 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 8,839
Posted By honeydumplin
Thanks Jo, for actually posting the 12 steps. In...

Thanks Jo, for actually posting the 12 steps. In no way is my response meant to reflect negatively on yours.

Articles of this nature, may be more indicative of how society perceives recovery in...
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 03-25-2016, 06:47 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 8,839
Posted By honeydumplin
remember the 12 steps

http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/remember-the-12-steps-1.11600085
Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery 03-21-2016, 05:20 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 3,968
Posted By honeydumplin
Myron, You may not have any intention...

Myron,



You may not have any intention to return to the coke, but if you're an addict, you will. If you're anything like I was, both your mind, and your body has both been affected by the...
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 03-08-2016, 04:53 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 7,391
Posted By honeydumplin
5 myths about heroin

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-heroin/2016/03/04/c5609b0e-d500-11e5-b195-2e29a4e13425_story.html
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 02-07-2016, 06:57 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 9,312
Posted By honeydumplin
lawyers and problem drinking

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/06/opinions/lawyers-problem-drinkers-krill/index.html
Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 02-06-2016, 07:07 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 13,613
Posted By honeydumplin
some step four

We start as usual, with nothing. Out comes a spiral notebook, opened so a blank page appears on both sides with either a four or five column approach, leaving plenty of room to expand upon the...
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 01-14-2016, 05:32 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 9,312
Posted By honeydumplin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/01/05/the-surprising-internet-forum-some-alcoholics-are-choosing-over-aa/
Forum: Humor 12-21-2015, 04:05 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 1,867
Posted By honeydumplin
conversation at check-out

One day while waiting in the check-out line at a local grocery store,
I struck up a conversation with a distinguished lady about marriage.
As it turns out, I was on my third wife, and she...
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 11-20-2015, 01:46 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 9,312
Posted By honeydumplin
alcoholism addiction and the brain

http://blog.myneurogym.com/7-things-you-never-knew-about-alcoholism-addiction-and-the-brain/
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 08-30-2015, 04:44 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 7,656
Posted By honeydumplin
Choosing to stop your addiction

The following is a review of the book “The Biology of Desire” (Why Addiction is not a Disease)
by Marc Lewis
It appeared on the back page of the Outlook section
The Washington Post
dated...
Forum: A.A. History With Dick B. 07-27-2015, 05:22 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 8,521
Posted By honeydumplin
Any student of A.A history can see that some...

Any student of A.A history can see that some force,
or guided hand had to move certain events or pieces
of the puzzle into place, in order for the origination
to develop from a vast alcoholic...
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 07-10-2015, 08:09 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 12,821
Posted By honeydumplin
a surgeon and a stockbroker

Continued from the same source as the above post

At the moment, Bob was upstairs in a stupor, after having brought home a large Mother's Day plant, putting it on the kitchen table, and collapsing...
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 07-03-2015, 07:51 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 12,821
Posted By honeydumplin
Dr. Tunks and Henrietta Seiberling

From the book Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers
A biography, with recollections of early A.A. In the Midwest
copyright 1980
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., New York, N.Y.
Chapter 6 ...
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 05-17-2015, 03:29 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 12,821
Posted By honeydumplin
Bill W. and Father Ed

From the book 'Pass It On'
The story of Bill Wilson
and how the A.A. Message reached the world
p. 241-243

For Bill, these were tantalizing days; his hopes would be raised, only to be...
Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 04-18-2015, 07:05 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 10,970
Posted By honeydumplin
eye of the storm

After what seemed an eternity of silence, the phone finally rang.
It startled me. The last few days spent licking my artificial wounds by
a point about an unorthodox welding skill was in...
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 03-30-2015, 05:05 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 12,821
Posted By honeydumplin
Dangers of Alcoholism circa 1790

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/chart-1790-lays-out-many-dangers-alcoholism-180954777/?no-ist
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 03-22-2015, 08:25 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 12,821
Posted By honeydumplin
saturday evening post article

The Jack Alexander Article
(From the March 1, 1941 issue of The Saturday Evening Post)

Alcoholics Anonymous

THREE MEN sat around the bed of an alcoholic patient in the psychopathic ward of...
Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 03-15-2015, 12:05 PM
Replies: 126
Views: 21,276
Posted By honeydumplin
your share

Yesterday after a meeting in which I felt I may have overshared,
fell on the sword, or was quite hard on myself in what I had shared,
I couldn't help but hurt a little inside, and sense a certain...
Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 03-15-2015, 12:03 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 10,970
Posted By honeydumplin
down the staircase

There was a full moon the night I stood at the bottom of my
parents driveway on the side of the road. I'll never forget,
looking up into the night sky at this very large full moon,
blaming it,...
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 03-07-2015, 06:10 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 12,821
Posted By honeydumplin
7th Tradition story

News and Notes from the General Service Office of A.A.
Vol. 61, No. 1/ Spring 2015

The Seventh Tradition Corner

“In 2006, my job took me to Nagoya, Japan for a three month period. At that...
Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 02-21-2015, 07:34 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 10,970
Posted By honeydumplin
Feem and scheme

"Try smiling at the joy of your confusion."

"I love to give an opinion on experiences I've never had."

"If you don't care, I can't care...,
If you do care, I have to care."

"Your past is...
Forum: Inspirations, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts, Etc 02-06-2015, 04:51 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 1,659
Posted By honeydumplin
Venus

It was rain
On a coast, when
Sleep lost unfeigned a wind produced host
Brought the same wrought storm blown
Brazenly west. In deep land eschewed sand
Such lone lean anew, most thoughts known...
Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 02-06-2015, 04:46 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 10,970
Posted By honeydumplin
picking the pickle

And, it is now that I realize that this is not some sort of story where a guy finds A.A. at the end, and all of the characters live happily ever after. It is more like a conviction. A confession. ...
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 01-24-2015, 11:40 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 12,821
Posted By honeydumplin
Grace

Friends don't let friends fly without a meeting
From Pulteny, New York

In the early 1990s, I was treating a woman in an alcoholism outpatient group.
"Grace" was a flight attendant with a major...
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 01-17-2015, 12:17 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 12,821
Posted By honeydumplin
The Sober Truth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leQKGHt8hz0&spfreload=10

A good spirituality achieves two huge things simultaneously: It keeps God absolutely free, and not bound by any of our formulas, and it...
Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum 11-27-2014, 07:28 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 10,989
Posted By honeydumplin
you are not crazy

I don't know about the rest of you, but holidays are a time when I'm around people that I'm usually not around. In this mix of people that ordinarily do not mix, it is imperative that I practice as...
Forum: Inspirations, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts, Etc 11-20-2014, 06:09 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 3,939
Posted By honeydumplin
The Night That Dixie Died

Long beyond what's better since; between a dream and what's real.
Before what was saved was what was spent, and guilt came prior to appeal.
Before she drank and swam with rum and coke engulfed in...
Forum: Inspirations, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts, Etc 11-14-2014, 02:00 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 3,318
Posted By honeydumplin
Untitled

An alpha male cemented glue ...
Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum 11-14-2014, 01:51 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 10,989
Posted By honeydumplin
This is a March Wisdom for Today reading. Just...

This is a March Wisdom for Today reading.
Just so strong, I wanted to share it.

Recovery Readings - 3/27

Wisdom for Today
There was a time for me when life was filled with doubts, but...
Forum: Inspirations, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts, Etc 11-08-2014, 07:24 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 2,924
Posted By honeydumplin
sign found hanging in an A.A. clubhouse

God in His wisdom selected this group of men and women to be purveyors of
His goodness. In selecting them through whom to bring about this
phenomenon, He went not to the proud, the mighty, the...
Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 10-24-2014, 11:48 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 10,970
Posted By honeydumplin
Lost in the keys

My idea of a geographical cure for my ills merely
accelerated my drinking. An anonymous feeling
of no one recognizing me, was intoxicating. I felt
I could do anything I could get by with, and...
Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support 10-24-2014, 04:25 PM
Replies: 182
Views: 25,200
Posted By honeydumplin
abstinence

Your posts are appreciated, and I hope you get well.

There was something that I had received in an e-mail awhile back.
Since it has to do with message, and newcomer, this may be a good place
for...
Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News 10-19-2014, 09:56 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 12,821
Posted By honeydumplin
two connected A.A. stories

Searcy Whaley (The man who sponsored Bill Wilson’s sponsor: Ebby Thacher)
gave a talk at Danville, IN, a few years ago when he was 90 years old and in a wheelchair.
However, he stood up to give...
Forum: Inspirations, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts, Etc 10-07-2014, 05:51 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 3,939
Posted By honeydumplin
Whistle Stop

'longside train towns bold
a next circled text chorus
rides; checks abode songs
a lode body lull sings
soprano, of course: farthings.

lone ballad dust must
abhor the chore salad days
baby...
Forum: Inspirations, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts, Etc 10-07-2014, 05:48 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 3,318
Posted By honeydumplin
dear hope

Dear Hope
Discern heart another chance,
Enchant straight up and see
In return, enamored held demur.
Peer doubly fate, recapture
Please, an inadvertent glance
To glimpse auspicious romance ...
Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 09-20-2014, 06:24 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 10,970
Posted By honeydumplin
nowhere left to run

A common theme without a doubt, was this feeling that somewhere
over the horizon, happiness awaited, chasing the very thing that
I never wanted to catch. The concept of success was an illusion...
Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 09-19-2014, 05:50 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 5,556
Posted By honeydumplin
"To admit that I am wrong about something is...

"To admit that I am wrong about something is difficult,
but it sure does provide a lot of good humility."

The first year without a drink was like going to a circus inside of my own head one day...
Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 09-19-2014, 05:31 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 10,970
Posted By honeydumplin
fleeting

Man, I'm really glad that post is over.

Its important for me to realize prior to a fifth step, that I may
not cover everything at one time, and that I may not do it
exactly right. I'm not...
Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 09-05-2014, 04:15 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 10,970
Posted By honeydumplin
the needle in the thread

What I'm about to tell you has rattled around in my head for a very long time, going into so many different directions as to how exactly to reference the subject matter, and in what way it can be...
Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 09-03-2014, 09:28 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 10,970
Posted By honeydumplin
an intro for 5: the report card

Although this will be something, it is still uncertain, at least to me, exactly what it might be. I only know that some housecleaning needs to be done on my part, and that if (and we both know what...
Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 09-03-2014, 04:37 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 10,970
Posted By honeydumplin
In something read recently, I came across a...

In something read recently, I came across a passage that stated the following:
Step four is a spiritual exercise; not an immoral inventory.
This exercise has also reminded me of another...
Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 09-03-2014, 05:43 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 10,970
Posted By honeydumplin
my fifth step

My name is Kevin, and I'm an alcoholic.
This may not be everything, but it'll be most of it.
Some of it isn't pretty, then again whose is?

"We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every...
Forum: Inspirations, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts, Etc 09-02-2014, 05:43 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 3,318
Posted By honeydumplin
Facsimile Thereof

The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-tzu's dictum:

Those who know do not say;
those who say do not know.

When the Master entered, they asked him what the words meant.

Said the...
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