If you’re the alcoholic in your family, then you’re always to blame. No matter what it is, if it’s bad and it happened in your household… YOU’RE TO BLAME..! Some of the crap I pulled made me guilty of even the stuff I didn’t do. No doubt, that’s what rolled around in my guilt ridden pea brain. Let’s look at the alcoholic’s children. Can we say for certain that the behavior of these kids is the result of having an alcoholic father? According to Jorge Valles, M.D., the general tendency is to say yes. If a boy misbehaves in school and it’s discovered that his father is an...

Hello my fellow Drunks… It’s nice to be able to address you in that manner knowing that if anyone else said that to you, you might knock their head off. To me, it means we’ve been to hell and back. We’ve wallowed in the depths of dispair and even considered killing ourselves. But, with sobriety came our opportunity to right the wrongs of our alcoholic past. The wreckage of my past is strewn all along the highway of my life. Three wives, a family that gave up on me and lost friends, too many to count. So today, let’s turn our attention to the Codependent. If you...

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,...

Recent events in my life include having a few people very close to me, find sobriety. It feels good and encouraging. It reminded me of my first meeting at AA. It was on Ohio Street in Santa Monica, California and was downright scary. As I pulled up to the clubhouse, I was thrown off by the amount of people hanging around outside before the meeting, laughing and looking very happy. No panhandling or guys with slobber in their beards. No red eyes looking like a roadmap of Puerto Rico. I didn’t know what to expect, but whatever notion I had preconceived, included a few winos, sitting on the ground,...

A note from about.com covers the “Everyone’s Doing It” aspect of drinking and drugging. At least from a teenager’s perception. But, that notion is not supported by facts. The fact is most teens go through high school without ever using drugs, drinking alcohol or even smoking. Of the more dangerous drugs, over 90% have never tried them. It’s easy for us fathers and mothers to believe that there’s a dope dealer on every corner, which apparently is not the case. The idea here then, is to council our kids who say, “Yeah but Dad, everyone is doing it,” to...

Hello everyone. The Feds have lifted the ban and another radio station has put their license on the line. I’m going back on the radio every Monday night at 7 O’Clock. It’s kind of like I rummaged through the boxes of CD’s in my garage that I stole, er I mean collected from the many radio stations I’ve worked for these many years, and play all my favorites. It’s KSAV on the web. Share a vision is what the SAV stands for and is a collection of interesting and odd ball individuals, well the odd ball is me, with a great collection of shows that we guarantee will...

If you’re like me, I’m concerned that life is just flying by. So, it’s time to slow things down a bit. Here are the top 5 ways to bring life to a screeching halt: 1. Drop by the DMV (Dept of Motor Vehicles) for anything. 2. Call Social Security – While you’re waiting for a live person, you’ll undoubtedly note that time has come to a stand-still. 3. Seek help from Adobe software. Life and your sense of humor will not move forward. Of course almost all software “support” will do the job in this case, and good luck with Naji from...

My fellow drunks… I mean that in a loving way… Here is the chapter from AA that’s read at every meeting. It was very helpful to me, making me realize the futility of my drinking. Hopefully it will work for you or someone you love. Here we go. More about Alcoholism Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics. No person likes think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellow. Therefore, it’s not surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people. The idea that somehow,...

Happy New year my fellow Drunks… The countdown to 2010 is on. With next year just a few hours away, let’s shoot for a sober 2010. A few things to consider: How would you like to wake up out of a black-out in a jail cell, head pounding, an impending sense of doom and a feeling that something awful has happened. Flashes of an accident present themselves, and you feel you had something to do with it, but can’t quite figure it out. Then…. the jailer says, “Your lawyer is here. Follow me.” You shuffle down the hallway, with prisoners who look like they crawled out...

My beautiful friends from around the world. For the past several years, we at the Hooten household have been enjoying what has become an annual tradition in Germany. You’d think that a website dedicated to sobriety would take a dim view of this kind of behavior, but we don’t, because it’s a comedy skit. Every New Year’s Eve, half of all Germans plop down in front of their TV sets to watch a 1963 English comedy sketch called Dinner for One. Even though Dinner for One is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the most frequently watched TV bit ever, it has never been...