Hello my Fellow Drunks: Where do we get these lame expressions that are plastered all over the walls at AA meetings..? After all the years I’ve been working on changing the way I behave in a sober world, I’m still amazed at how often I awkwardly manage my life. The Main Ingredient, with Cuba Gooding Jr.’s father as lead singer, sang it: “Everybody Plays the Fool, sometime.” When I played that song on the radio, my comment was, “Yeah, but I just wish my turn wouldn’t come up so often.” Even though I laugh about it, it’s an ongoing feature of my personality. Now I come from a...

This is a blog with a lot of Alcoholics Anonymous language. I apologize to those who are reading this, that don’t attend a Twelve Step program, it’s just that AA saved my life and it’s doing so for those close to me. In AA, which took me a long time to digest, time means a lot. We all want to be able to say, “Yeah, I’m working on my second year.” Sometimes, doing time is just that – accumulating time. What’s important is HOW you do your time. For me, waking up, having a chat with God, reading from my 24 Hour book and setting a goal to be a better man today than I was yesterday,...

A twenty year study of the drinking habits of our senior citizens reveals some interesting factors. Aside from the fact that life gets lonely when your partner passes away and a drink or two helps pad the pain, it’s important to keep an eye on yourself, or your mother or father. The study found that older adults are more likely to engage in high-risk drinking, which is defined as more than three drinks per day or more than fourteen per week. Good grief, I used to down 14 drinks in one sitting on a regular basis. I spilled more than three drinks a day! I’m not bragging, I’m just sayin’…....

Hello my friends…. Recognizing you’re an alcoholic doesn’t necessarily mean you’re on the road to sobriety. For many of us, like me, it took years of living in and dishing out misery. So I’ve decided to give you an opportunity to hear firsthand what happened on the day I finally came to grips and found sobriety. On the front page of my website www.mynameishoot.com click on the opening chapter of Drunk & Disorderly, Again – My name is Hoot, I’m an alcoholic. It’s a FREE three minute audio of me reading Chapter One. Drunk and Disorderly, Again - Chapter One Alcoholism is not a...

Hello my fellow Drunks and those who have suffered with us. If you made a New Year’s resolution to quit drinking, but didn’t succeed, it’s time to take a look at what may have caused your relapse. For me, whenever I did a little “Stinkin’ thinkin’” I knew it was the alcoholic in me telling me, “Go ahead, this time it will be different.” That’s the same voice that used to tell me, after I closed the bar, “Call a couple of your old girlfriends, they’d love to hear from you. It’s only three in the morning.” Relapse is so common in the alcohol recovery process that it is...

Coming to work with a hang-over is bad enough, but recent stats show that this practice is costing YOU & ME billions of dollars a year. About 10 percent of America’s workforce, which is nearly 14.9 million full and part-time employees, regularly abuse alcohol and drugs and quite often, do so on-the-job. Now, as a morning Dj, when I came in hung-over or stoned, I did very little show-preparation and couldn’t wait to get off the air to go home and sleep. My listeners were denied my usual effervescent self. Being a bone-headed Dj is one thing, but can you guess who tops the list of problem...