I Went to My Own Wake

YEARS of heartbreak, when she was taking my compulsive drinking pretty hard, finally led my wife to Al-Anon and eventually I joined AA. I am hoping it will do for me what it did for her--that is, sprout a pair of wings, for since she found that organization, she has gradually turned from a shrew into an angel! I was flying high for many years but no more "wing-dings" for me from now on, please God. The change in me, as it was in her, is slow but magical. I had almost been able to see the wings sprout gradually from her overburdened shoulders. Our young impressionable daughter had been the concern of both of us through the "Days of Wine and Roses"--or should I say "pitch and brimstone"? Then my angel got an idea.