WHO AM I: I am a Professor At the University of hard knocks. If you can’t learn from your own mistakes, maybe you can learn from mine.
Born July 20 1958 on Vancouver Island where I still live. I might just have more days behind me than ahead… The hardest thing about getting into shape, is, getting up off the couch…
I enjoy Theology,Psychology, Addiction Recovery, and all of the ‘Ologys” that deal with the human heart and soul. This blog started as an attempt to sort out my ideas on Religion, God, Theology, Psychology, 12 step Programs, Booze, Drugs, Sex, and just about everything that I have learned about these things.
I do not like competitive sports. I dislike the adversarial system, where there has to be a winner and a looser. This is a system that makes you pick sides. You are either with us or against us. If you are not with us, then you MUST be against us is how this reasoning works.
I became interested in “”recovery from my own personal insanity”", when in 1994 I married a gal I had only know for about a week. I had to seriously ask myself for the first time in my life, “What the Hell was I Thinking?” We were divorced 3 months later. How can a nice guy like me, mess up so badly?? 
I like to read a lot on the net. I do not know how the human race survived for so long without the internet. Those old days of going to the library to get a book seem about as far away as saddling a horse to go to town.
I am a glutton and a pig by nature. A life of unsatisfied demands has caused me much pain. The Medical doctor is the last person I would go to for advice on these issues. A doctor can only cut burn and poison. He can not surgically cut my prideful ego from my brain. He can not burn the sniveling whining childish attitude from my soul. He can perhaps give me a pill to make me feel better, but I want to ‘Get Better’, not just ‘Feel Better’.
First I will look at my Diet, exercise, and attitude. I love to swim, and I love my bicycle.
I find that a good swim or a good bike ride will cure just about anything. I have also found that a cup of grapes will make me feel better than a cup of raw sugar. I have also found that being 30lbs overweight does not lead to a bright and happy state of existence either. note (I have lost 10lbs since I wrote the above)
I had my first drink at the age of 5. I was given the opportunity to help my grandfather go get some cider from the barrels in the basement. He had to fight me to get the hose out of my hands.
I wrecked my knee in 1980 riding this Yamaha 1100 special.
So I went to Germany and lived there for 6 years. I gave up my Motorcycle and just rode bicycle the whole time…It was the best for my knee. I had torn ligaments and two staples put in. Germany was kind to me. Lots of beer and smoke. I loved rolling my own from “schwartzer Krauser, or other tobac that had a kick. but most of all lots of pavement to ride my bicycle on. I had a few good bicycle tours….
(1.)Germany through France Portugal Spain, and on to the border of morocco…..
( 2.)Yugoslavia and down to Greece …. (3.) New York to Newfoundland and then across Canada to Vancouver Island.
Adding up all the KM’s, I must have cycled around the world at least once by the time I was 28. Today however I am not so mobile. It may be because of the Island I live on. There is no place where you can go very far and not hit water. It is hard to cycle in water. Or It could just be that my gluttonous spirit is dragging me down again.
I Thought I was a rock star for awhile. But after 30 years without a gig, and starving to death, I decided it was time to get a real job. Today I milk cows for a living. I actually enjoy it too.
