Ramblings

Welcome to another enlightening episode of Sober Not Mature! In Episode 121, titled “Filling Your Holes With John From Sober Speak,” hosts Bill and Mike engage in a deep-dive conversation with John, a longtime member of Alcoholics Anony…

Hazelden publishes several great books for people in recovery. I will go as far as to say that they are the authority when it comes to recovery literature.   Below are three of their most popular books and I’m going to give you the …

The article title makes it sound like a bad thing, but I had a great time alone and sober in Memphis. My trip started out as a plan to see a friend of mine in Oklahoma City and as soon as I found out that it was a 12-hour drive, I decided that I wo…

I am writing this on a Wednesday, but it felt like Saturday or a Sunday.  We got back from out of town yesterday, back from our mom's funeral service and both of us still had one more day off of work. It was nice today, weather wise, so I fig…

Why do you stay sober? I think it's an important question for us to ask ourselves and I think the answer probably changes over time. At least it did for me.  I've made it pretty clear that I had no desire to quit drinking, let alone get sober.…

I was driving home tonight, listening to the sober podcast as always, and the guy that was being interviewed started telling his story. The funny part is that I was basically hearing my own story. If you've been around the recovery world for any am…

So, I was humbled today. In a good way. Mike talks about this in his story, in Episode 3, but one of the things we were taught very early on was to "just be a good boy." We were also taught to "practice these principles in all of our affairs." If …

Well, this is my first ever blog post. I've done a lot of writing over the years, but I've never "blogged." And quite honestly, I'm not a fan of the word blog, and I'm not sure why. But that's why I changed the name of this page to simply, "Rambling…