JustAndrew

For a long time I assumed my aggresive behavior as a 20-something young punk was mostly feuled by beer and fake bravery. Turns out it was Doc Marten Boots!!! I recently got a pair on sale ......

Yeah -- go to work every day ... walk to and from the bus stop -- take a walk at lunch to a noon meeting. I might still be pushing a desk -- but the word is that we get a HUGE discount on facilities...

It's all about tolerance. Tolerance for other people's actions and characteristics and tolerance for one's own thoughts and moods in a big bustling city, like New York. It's very hard not to judge...

Advice I've gotten.  I've been given a few good pointers by mental health professionals and a Tibetan Buddhist teacher (you just never know where the good ideas come from!)The first was that no one...

I'm doing some practice, it's difficult to be consistent. Does devotional practice count?? Hmm ... 1 day at a time.

An Aunt sent me email explaining that she had read my father's obituary inthe New York Times, December 5, 2009. He had died the previous night in Cork Co., Ireland. I did not know that he was...

Lesse, I came back to AA after a run with painkillers about February 28 of 2008. I celebrated 1 year back with my home group in February of 2009. That would be the third time I celebrated 1...

My stomach started having a revolt yesterday -- it's VERY unhappy and I had to get up often last night. Also, learned that the job I interviewed for that I felt was a perfect fit has evaporated. ...

I went over 15 minutes and made the whole thing more elaborate than necessary -- no harm no foul, right? A recording of the monks from Gaden Shartse Monastery helped get it started. OM AMI DEWA...

I have gotten to a meditation meeting every Tuesday for the last few weeks.  I sat a few times on my own ... but I am still resistent to really making the effort. What if it's not...

I just did a phone interview and I couldn't get s simple simple programming question. My mind feels fuzzy. I feel anger, humiliation and dispair.  I desperately need a job, I have been unemployed...