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Why Cars Are Dangerous for Bikers

Although plenty of roads in the USA were carved out by horses and pedestrians, modern roads are made for cars. People behind the wheel have rules they drive by, and the crazy thing is the US expects bikers to drive by the same rules.

This setup works great in an ideal world where workaholism and instant gratification fills us all with happiness and joy. But in the real world where diabetes, heart…

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Who Is God?

“I joined…” pretty much sums up the hunt for the Higher Power of our universe. That sentence generally ends with something like a church, a group, a society, a club, a gathering, an organization, a political party, or something along those lines. Often enough the choice to join is not our own. If we were born into one of these factions, we became members by association. Or if, for example, we…

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What Are Your Plans For Tomorrow?

What Are Your Plans For Tomorrow?

Was given a yellow Schwinn 10-speed bicycle today that had been sitting idle for some time behind a friend’s shed. As the picture shows, it was missing a few things that are important for riding safely down the road. Besides the missing parts, there was also the fact that the brake and shifter cables were seized up, and both front and rear tires were dry-rotted. That’s not good. But I did some…

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How Has Today Added to Your Life?

How Has Today Added to Your Life?

Today has been a pretty great day. The sum of all that’s happened over the past few 24 hours has brought me to the realization that all things considered, being sober is enough for a day to be great. I spent the last three years drinking and avoiding my problems, a long series of poor and oftentimes terrible decisions all precipitated by one “good” decision: to stop living an alcohol-free life.…

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Dear Recovery: What Next?

The problem with being an addict/alcoholic on into recovery is that being sober doesn’t mean you’re no longer an addict. By on into recovery I mean that you’ve followed directions: sponsor, homegroup, worked steps, gone to lots of meetings, sponsored a few newcomers, etc., and by being sober,I mean not getting high on mind or mood altering substances for the sake of getting high. In other words,…

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The Matt Talbot Effect

The Matt Talbot Effect

So I was introduced to a guy named Matt Talbot yesterday whose personal story gave me a lot of gratitude. He’s late 19th early 20th century, Irish, and an alcoholic. Thing is, he was in recovery from the disease for over 20 years before he passed in his 60s from a heart attack, and he did it, sobriety, pre AA.

One of the truly amazing things about his recovery is that despite there being no AA at…

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Ancient Text

Today I inherited a 3rd edition Big Book from a friend of mine. It’s a 1988 printing, so it’s not as old as a 3rd edition could be. Still, when I was told I could have a copy of Alcoholics Anonymous that this friend had bought as a replacement when he thought he lost his original copy, I was thinking something from the last few years or so. I was expecting crisp pages, and perhaps even the…

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When Was the Last Time You Helped Somebody You Didn’t Know? When? Every time I open my mouth and share the sordid truth about my past with someone who has the same sort of shabby past as mine and thinks they're the only person who did such things.

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Are You Investing Your Time with the Right People? The right people today are ironically the same people that helped get me into trouble in the first place years ago.

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What Did You Give Today?

What Did You Give Today?

Today was about taking part in service. I live in a house with three other people who are not my blood relatives. I pay rent. I have a space that I am allowed to use as my own as well as spaces that I share with the people I live with. Today I cleaned the bathroom and kitchen floors. I did some common laundry, the bathroom rugs that keep you from slipping and falling on your rear when you get out…

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What Are You Most Looking Forward To? The thing I'm looking forward to most of all is being able to look back someday and see where God led me in life, where He was helping me make decisions and putting me in situations that I would not have put myself running on self-will.

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Change of Direction

Well, I’ve been going over all of my philosophies from the past 45 years, and I think I’ve come to the conclusion that life is about growing. Plants grow, animals grow, businesses grow, and people grow. But growing doesn’t just involve adding more to the body. A plant, animal, or business may get larger and add functions, but they also shed unneeded and worn out parts. They go through cycles.…

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Google Chrome Delete My Bookmarks

Zombie Bookmarks, get back in your graves! Yes, friend, this is the place you are looking for if you want to get rid of all of those pesky bookmarks and autofills on Google Chrome from back in 2006 that won’t delete from the bookmark bar. Oh, they were bugging me too. I moved away from Abingdon, VA in 2007. Why does my old address still show up on my autofill on Google Chrome in 2018?

Part of the…

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Burrying My Old Keyboard

So I finally did it. I dragged my old computer keyboard out and decided I would give it one more chance at life. A good cleaning. That is what it needed. Surely if I washed away all of the beer and chips and dust and sneezes and… I’ll stop there.

Keyboards are like welcome mats. They are disgusting if you let them get that way. The best way to keep them from getting that way is to throw them…

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So you have computers that are making art and you have people who are making art. And some people are going to argue that eventually computers are going to get so good at making art that you’re not going to be able to tell whether or not the art was made by a computer or whether it was made by a human. And at this point, people will say humans can no longer make art because computers have taken…

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Kyle Buckland

Does anyone still look at those old hologram art posters they used to sell back in the 90s that you needed to “stare at just the right way to see the magic 3D image pop out?” They were cool for a while, but they became extinct because they were cheap novelties. Remember? You had to concentrate really hard to see an image pop out at you. It was the magic of science. They used to be everywhere, in…

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New Tax Laws

Well, laws? Like why would we call them laws or even taxes? Like, if you want the world to be a better place get up and start doing it. I make a lot of money? Well, it is because I love what I do. I do it a lot. So there is the place on the internet where you can go and decide what you want to buy with your money. Like, there is this product called feed children in Haiti. I buy about five or ten…