Category Archives: Personal

What Is My Role In The World?

* “What is the role that God has assigned me in the world? Hold my answer until I have completed the Ninth Step (amends). Everything we want is on the other side of the Ninth Step. The first nine steps … Continue reading

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You Can Often Sense Somebody’s Recovery Level By Their Body Language

For more than four years, I have been going to 12-step rooms for my various emotional addictions. I’ve noticed that you can usually tell where someone is in his recovery by his body language. Those in the throes of addiction … Continue reading

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Reworking The Twelve Steps

My previous efforts. Step One. Admit that I am powerless over my addictions. I am powerless over my desires for attention, nurturing, beauty, and power. I am powerless over my debting and under-earning and under-achieving and under-being. I am powerless … Continue reading

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Time Is Cruel

My new passport photo: My 2005 passport photo:

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Just once this year, I want to see a white guy in Los Angeles toting a leaf blower

Chaim Amalek: “Seriously, walk up to a Mexican, ask to borrow his leaf blower, and have him take a picture of you holding it. Then circulate the photo to web sites where people ponder ‘What ever happened to Luke Ford?’ … Continue reading

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Open Borders

* Twenty years ago, I met a Christian girl at a party. She had to say a prayer to Jesus before she would get cozy. Something like: “Dear Jesus, thank you for giving me this man and for our kisses, … Continue reading

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Does this bloke look like anyone you know?

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How Do You Deflect The Bull Dyke?

* When I was a kid I thought dykes were hot. Now that I have seem many of them, they could not be further from hot. I remember one evening trying to share my experience, strength and hope with a … Continue reading

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The Call Of The Genes

My relatives at my Aunty Linda’s 80th birthday party.

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Keep Coming Back!

* For the past 45 years, people have told me that my sloppiness will be my undoing. * Friend: “You misfiled again!” Luke: “Will you be my sponsor for Underearners Anonymous?” Friend: “Sure, I’ll do a 5150 and have you … Continue reading

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