White Earth Red Earth, Each One Teach One, Homeless In America, Willie Nelson

Prefect Storm, O Brother Where Art Thou, Walking Tall, Songwriter, Red Headed Stranger and The Titians

I enjoy music, reading, writing,fishing, computers,arts and crafts, gardening, camping right now I can't think of anymore

I would consider myself to be an ever growing, ever changing and ever evolving person. I have started out battling many different addictions only to find that accepting them is lot easier on the head.

The patient and caring people of the program didn't always tell me what I wanna to hear but they certainly told me what I needed to hear.

I have found a Higher Power that is kind and forgiving with one h*ll? of a sense of humor.

There is more to me then addictions and mental health issues. Since this is a recovery site I will try to describe a little about how it was and what its like now.

I am single/divorced guy with no kids from Superior Wi. I am veteran of the Navy which I was asked to leave because of what denial can do. I drove truck for 10 yrs great job for a white-knuckling addict of different substances. Worked in the mental health field as a resident counselor in group homes. Now that's hoot LOL Many other short-lived attempts at being someone I wasn't.

After, spending about 3 years in denial of my own mental health issues ie d/c my meds and I quit working on my recovery for both my addictions and mental health.

I hit a completely different bottom that time. I managed to stay clean and sober to only find myself homeless, unemployable and out of control in my own mind.

From that experience I was taught just how delusional this illness really is and that it demands respect if I am to stay sober, clean and sane.

The steps and the philosophy have been extremely helpful in arresting my addictions of drugs, drinking, gambling and smoking. Now I am working on the one that I know I have had the longest and that is overeating.

A good strong cup of coffee in some ol dark and musty smelling coffee shop. Conversations from the heart, thunderstorms, a smile from strangers, the smell of fresh mowed grass or hay, a calm autumn stained lake, watching my dog and the beaver play in the water (rest his soul), smell of lilacs in May and June, smell of fire in sub-zero weather

pea soup, people who can brag better then me, words that were never spoken, when its really hot outside, the person that put the milk back in the frigid with only about 3 tablespoons left in it. the nightmares, being lonely