Frank Brown

the emotional literacy section of the manhood handbook was ripped out somewhere around second grade and replaced with “just walk it off.”

God’s will” for him is that he live a life filled with compassion, love and service.

W e, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have re-covered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.

My active drinking career highlighted a lot of things I didn’t know how to do:

• Be honest with myself.


• Understand my own motivations and needs.


• See my proper place in the world.


• Appreciate my own quirks.


• Believe that I’m enough for the world, as-is.

I think I became an alcoholic because I was ashamed of me. I was afraid to be me.

I needed to quiet the constant voice in my head wondering why we still didn’t measure up, why we hadn’t accomplished more, why more people didn’t like us, why were we always so alone?

the challenge for Anders is to reinsert himself in the quotidian flow of life