Susan started drinking at 13. The last 8 years of her drinking were daily drinking. She started trying to get sober in 1986. She called all the alcohol help numbers in the phone book, spoke with a woman for a while, and felt hope. Keeping her drinking life hidden from her mother, she called and told her about her drinking problem.

Susan's sobriety date is 07MAY1988 and her homegroup is Down & Dirty in Greensboro, NC.

Be sure to listen through the end of this episode. There's news!

Owl 109 Susan

track from the celebrated album THE WORLD OF CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
on Knitting Factory Records
website: http://bit.ly/28UOjHT
Nona Hendryx--vocals Gary Lucas--guitars    
Jesse Krakow--bass    Jordan Shapiro--keyboards   Richard Dworkin--drums
Produced by Gary Lucas and Jesse Krakow
Recorded at Eastside Sound Studio NYC 
Engineered by Marc Urselli-Schaerer

"Sun Zoom Spark"---The World of Captain Beefheart feat. Nona Hendryx and Gary Lucas

The Boiled Owl is hosted by Don and Sam, both members of Alcoholics Anonymous who like listening to other alcoholics’ experience, strength, and hope.  We both do this often via podcasts and speaker tapes (well, CDs and MP3s) while working or driving.  While there are many recordings of speaker meetings, we found locating podcasts a bit more difficult.  So…… Rather than just complaining about it (you know we did!), we decided to take action.

We both attend a Saturday morning men’s AA meeting and go to coffee afterward.  Sometimes it’s just the two of us, though often it’s several more.  The conversation there is always wide-ranging and invariably full of recovery.  The Boiled Owl is our attempt to recreate the environment of the coffee shop meeting-after-the-meeting.  Since it’s not completely ad-hoc, we have to structure it a bit, but soon the flow of conversation takes hold and it then goes where it goes.

We start with a little banter, introduce our guest, and then ask them a question about why they’re in AA.  This one question kicks off the conversation and we chat for 20-30 minutes.  We close the podcast with “Ask the Old-timer,” where a question is posed to Don.  For our initial episodes, we made up the question.  The goal is for YOU to ask a question!  Send us your question via giveahoot@boiledowlaa.org.

New episodes are posted on the 1st and 15th of the month.

Owl 109 Susan

The Boiled Owl

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