Hi Everyone,

I feel guilty at times for not posting more here then I do, so I'd like to share with you what I've been up to the last six months to a year.  I finished my third book entitled Creating Dreams, from the nightmares of hell. This book took me two years to write and deals with growing up in an alcoholic home with two drunk parents and being the sexual toy for one of them.

For me, it was a very traumatic experience to relive.  But I guess I followed through with it because "you're only as healthy as the secrets you keep."  This past month, the book was sold and hopefully will be published before the end of 2009.

Recently, I handed over my prison 12 Step group to another person.  I loved doing it and learned a lot about how cunning, baffling and powerful my disease is, but I also figured out how spiritually draining it was for me.

I'd sit in groups and think that so and so would make it.  Then after they were released I'd never see them again.  That is until they were back in jail 3-4 months later.

But it hasn't deterred me from doing some very heavy duty sponsorship with three newbies all with under one year sobriety and all facing some serious consequences because of their last drunk.

I share all of this with you because, from writing my book, to my jailhouse group, to sponsorship, I've come to believe that while we all hit different lows, in reality we all quit drinking because we are "sick and tired of being sick and tired."

I wrote a poem about it and created a video for it.  I hope you enjoy it...

Thanks for listening,
glad to be here and grateful to be sober,
Dave