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Progress, Despite All

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"Progress, however glacial, is still Progress." I don't know who said that, but it has saved my sanity a few times. And I am getting into a series of completions despite the intrusion of some nasty real-world problems on several channels. The Sponsorship Glyph But there are obstacles within the goals. For example, KDP. Kindle Direct Publishing has replaced the old Kindle system, which worked. But doesn't for me. It is required that I move books over from the original Kindle system and it will not connect. It sits and spins and spins and spins. but I'll keep hammering on it. But the first of the releases will make me no money. Which is the design. it is the 2019 edition of SIMPLE DIRECTIONS, A Guide to a 4th Step Inventory. This was originally published in 2019 and has been spiffed up. It is still a very easy to follow set of directions to do a 4th Step Inventory with Dr. Bob's version of a summary for Steps 1-2, plus a few words to help with St...

My Unanonymous Life

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I will update the blog at least once a week but might do more than one. We shall see. I'm never ashamed to say I am a person involved with long-term recovery from alcohol (primarily) and drugs (hey, it was the 70s). Thirty-four years and counting. So far. I have no standing nor do I represent AA or any of the other Twelve Step Program (there are over 70 addressing various substances and behaviors with the step method). If you don't like me, don't worry - I am just a channel for other people and their words - some of which you might like. A big part of maintaining what I've found has been to give it away. To that end, with several other people involved with the same journey put together a collection of writings from the 1940s to the 21st Century. Where there were living families or estates, we went to the source for permission. We wrote and revised through an almost embarrassing first edition to this. Which stands on its own. (Quite well, too.) Respect for the auth...