Abraham Lincoln once said, “The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time,” and the phrase has been a key to recovery from my alcohol addiction. In the beginning, I could not face a lifelong commitment to sobriety, but I could commit to another hour or even a day and that’s what I have tried to practice for more than 35 years. I also went to AA meetings, got treatment for depression and joined an evangelical Christian church, Fellowship Bible Church. I got well and … [Read more...]

By David Palmer              I was having breakfast with a young man, call him John, following a Sunday morning Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, and he confessed to me that he had acquired a heroin addiction in addition to his alcoholism.          John, 32, has been abusing alcohol and other drugs for more than a decade, and the odds are that he may die before he is forty if he doesn’t quit. He functions pretty well on his job but at some point the drug abuse is likely to trip him … [Read more...]

By David Palmer Some of today’s college students are taking themselves way too seriously with their demands on college administrations which, in turn, are taking the students and their demands much too literally. It’s not good for either of them, but the colleges are supposed to be the adults after all. By chance I came across a recent issue of the New Yorker (a once dominant liberal humor publication in the nineteen thirties and forties) which contained a spoof of current student demands by … [Read more...]