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Today I collected money for some artwork I did for someone I had met in AA. She proceeded to tell me she had been 13th stepped by another member who married her and ripped off her and her whole family with a life insurance scandal. The 13th stepper never sobered up and remained a revered member of the group. After losing her house to this and being left with nothing, although sober, she took her case to the AA group and the Alano club that hosted the meetings. The man remains there still running his scam and she was told,...

Five Friends   It’s hard to make and keep good friends. Nobody is saying it isn’t. I find people who have too many friends, tend to have no friends at all. Being bipolar, I am a difficult friend to have. I can be depressed, lethargic and slothful. I can have high energy, bothersome and draining. I’ve had to be treated for my temper and even been in trouble with the law at times. I’m like a dog you find on the street and take in to your home. Good to have around, but sometimes you wonder if its’s safe to...

Friendship People are touchy. We lose friends, coworkers, relatives, husbands, wives over seemingly petty things and we never talk to them again. With our modern social media we block, blast, unfriend, send to junk mail or voicemail. In extreme cases there may even be a restraining order. In today’s technology, we have more ways to lose a friend than we have to make one. What was good then is now gone. When I was a boy in grammar school, I made strong friendships, friendships that have lasted to this day. We grew together and formed our thoughts on politics, religion...

In 2011 I was new to the Magoski Arts Colony or basically the Fullerton Art Walk. The community was in a frenzy of protests after the police beating and murder of schizophrenic homeless man, Kelly Thomas. I had been in a psychiatric hospital myself with Kelly, he was my roommate, and from my experience of some of the psychiatric system as well as the coldness of the Fullerton community itself, it seemed to me that he was killed for having a severely misunderstood illness. I soon met his father, Ron Thomas, and told him of the troubles I had had...

  The ache and the pains VERSES GCGC CHORUS Am Em   I couldn’t get out of bed To greet the day My body was dead To the aches and the pains   The aches and the pains The aches and the pains Don’t ever stop  Don’t ever go away   I tried oxcycontin And vicotin too Stoned out of my mind I was through With Chorus   Gimme marijuana Gimme something good Don’t tell me what I outa Don’t tell me what I should Chorus   So if you ever Feel so old Just take the hurting And don’t...