Halfway up my top twenty list of modern convenience accoutrements is the overlarge toothpaste cap. The smooth kind you hold like a tennis ball and dial like a stereo knob. That dull, inaudible, tactile pop it makes, like a mute person’s morning handshake. The ease of motion, that perfect grip. Mouthing how are you? Other Continue reading

I’m a hard worker. I shouldn’t brag. I’m just one man, I pack a lunch like everyone else, put my pants on one leg at a time. I’m a hard worker not because I want to be, but because I have to be, and have had to be. My dad made me. My brothers and Continue reading

Plan B You do the boring thing, you live. You go back out, you die. That’s how Bill sees it. Well, how I see it. It’s not how B sees it. He doesn’t believe in boring. He is newly tanned when you meet him, and also appears to have done pushups minutes ago. He wears a Continue reading

Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. A drunk who shares her story holds a finger near Continue reading