Twenty for dinner The guests young and old Bring a bottle of red And let the conversation unfold We all agree the world is a horrible mess We’ve all played a part Yet we’re afraid to confess Do you take a two-minute shower Or a deep soak in the tub Would you have an abortion Or condemn someone who did Do you get a new Prius every two years Or […]
Noah Levine | A fearless moral inventory
When I first started working the twelve steps with Big Don, I was tentative. But now I felt like I was really ready to give this spiritual practice shit a try. I looked around the program in Santa Cruz to see who was really working the steps. I knew I sure as hell wasn’t and I had already been sober for almost two years. So I asked Matthew if he […]
William Cass | Unsaid, undone
Growing up, Pete was a Navy brat, and he basically followed in his father’s career military footsteps afterward. His father had been a pediatrician, while Pete had become an internist. When his parents passed away, Pete inherited their house in Coronado, and he finished the last twenty-five years of that career across the bridge at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego after serving on several deployments early on. Now, he’d […]
Kayla Swanson | Drowning in rain
It wasn’t yet raining, so she didn’t need to be glaring at me from the other side of the cash register like that, I said to myself as I put my grocery basket on the counter. Sheila was the more introverted of the Young sisters, the reddish-blonde progeny of the entrenched Mormon family of our small town. She was related to everyone by no more that two or three degrees […]
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