Howdy all -

Old TV shows were great. After his run with the Twilight Zone Rod Serling came out with Night Gallery. Rod Serling had a wonderful gift for understated and subtle suspense and horror. I have always enjoyed his programs.

But he could never compete with the macabre and twisted thoughts that went through my head when I was drinking.

It's been bandied about the rooms that the most dangerous neighborhood in the world for an alcoholic is his own mind.  Alone in there I could conjour up the wildest ideas and project the strangest results from even the most mundane of circumstances or simple situations. I took fantastic sucesses and reduced them to pitiful wrecks. I made bad times good and good times bad - all by the twist of my mind.

I hurt people that I thought deserved it. I let people hurt me because I thought I deserved it. I used to wake up in the middle of the night remembering things I had done - often hurting others.  Sometimes after a blackout, I found out how twisted this alcoholic mind was from the very people I hurt. 

Thanks to God and AA I don't have to do that today. Nor do I have to worry about what goes on in my head or what I did last night. There is a solution - 12 simple steps. It worked for me - it'll work for anyone...

Nuff Said,

Dennis