Through An Al-Anon Filter

I have reached a point in my recovery, where I rarely become angry. When I do, I am able to count to ten, remain silent, or speak without he...

I've always found it fascinating, the amount of money and time that our culture devotes to telling us about how our hair can be softer, ...

I was writing to my sponsor last night, and mentioned that I can still be powered by those two engines of insanity - control and perfectioni...

A reader wrote to me noting that "depression" does not appear on the topic list to the right side of my blog, and wondering if I c...

Yesterday was my first chemo treatment. When we'd seen the oncologist for our first meeting, she said that some very tiny percentage of ...

Today we went to the hospital at the edge of the city, (where I had the second operation, and from which I went home believing myself to hav...

This week I met with an oncologist, who after introducing herself and talking for a few minutes, asked me what my understanding of my illnes...