I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Daniel J. Thanks to a power greater than myself and the program and fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, I have been able not to drink or use drugs, one day at a time for almost 7,000 days -- that's a little over nineteen years. I am very active in AA, but I am abstinent from all mind-altering recreational substances. I'm very pro NA and CA and CMA. I just happened to get sober in AA. I work with addicts of all stripes.

I hope that this doesn't put any of you off. I'm here for you anyway if you need me!

I am a hopeless dope fiend, so: I attend a meeting every day, work the 12 steps on a continuous basis, work with three sponsees and a number of newcomers, have a sponsor who has a sponsor, and I do my best to keep the Big Book a working part of my conscious mind. I read it a lot, and I love going to Big Book study meetings. I love the Founders, and I think how hard they had to work to carry the message so that the hand of AA was there for me when I was ready to take it. I take this program very seriously because I have seen hundreds of times where this progressive and inevitably fatal disease takes us. To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face, I know; so I work very diligently with newcomers and other addicts. It's been my great privilege to have had the wonderful AAs in my life who have taught me everything that this hopeless, helpless addict has needed to know about my life. And I still am loving every day of my sobriety, good and bad.

I look forward to getting to know you better. HOW, Dan

PS: please check out my sober spiritual blog, Vajra Surfers @ vajrasurfers.blogspot.com/