Keeping It Real
July 2021 | The Annual Prison Issue

Keeping It Real

After COVID shuts down all meetings, he stays sober in prison, writing his sponsor, praying and helping others as best he can

Although I wandered aimlessly through more than 20 years of escalating drinking and inner turmoil, I somehow still was able to achieve what some would consider success. I had a beautiful wife, kids I adored, a profitable business and a home on the 18th hole of a country club. Then after a while, I got a new wife, this time the love of my life. Yet nothing was filling the void that drinking seemed to cover up.

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