Posts by Mark Goodson

Numb

Ten years ago, I was first learning how to feel things. Not that I couldn’t feel before then, I just...

Imprint

Konrad Lorenz famously observed that newborn goslings were highly impressionable creatures. They were willing to follow anything they engaged with...

Chistes

A good Super Bowl commercial has to be funny. There’s good reason for that. Humor is the quickest way to...

Diego

It’s been awhile since I’ve written at night. Thoughts tend to jumble up by the day’s end, blocking the flow...

Awaiting Our International Arrival

It is said in recovery circles that our happiness is inversely proportional to our expectations. The bigger our expectations, the...

Resentment

I heard at a meeting one time about a pair of monks. They were meditating by a river when a...

Complacence

Happy Memorial Day to everyone. I always remember my grandfather Bud on this holiday and wish I had the chance...

Baffling

Recovery is a fascinating journey. Take this: I am much less certain how I manage to stay sober now then...

Enough

If I had a nickel I’d find a game, If I won a dollar I’d make it rain, If it...

The Yielding

In 2008, deemed psychotic, I dropped everything I knew about everything I claimed to know. I discovered a new world. ...

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