One of the great things I have done for myself was to be willing to consider that maybe I didn't know everything. Yeah, I know that sounds facetious but it's not my intent, I did believe I knew all I needed to survive. However the "Gift of Desperation" tends to suggest strongly to us that we need to find another way. The path we have chosen is not working and it's leading to our destruction.

Forty years ago I happened to pick up the newspaper for the Edmonton Star and the headline read "Alcoholics Anonymous recovery rate 3 to 4 per cent...

Around 35 years ago I was in a meeting in Edmonton at the local Alano Club. If you've never been at an Alano club, they are usually a restaurant owned or managed...