King Alcohol

King Alcohol is a memoir of one hopeless, helpless, desperate drinker who spent forty years riding the magic carpet of alcoholic denial and delusion until he fell to earth when he started putting a shotgun in his mouth every night, praying for the courage to pull the trigger. Through the gift of recovery, he found that his suffering was transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress and a delightful new way of living.

I'm not famous, and you don't know me, but you may be familiar with my disease of alcoholism. I'm not a special alcoholic or a unique alcoholic; I'm just an average alcoholic. My life experiences are no better or worse than anyone else's, but they are unique to me. Those bits and pieces shaped who I was, how I changed and who I am today. Alcohol saved my life before it ruled my life and ultimately destroyed my life. I couldn't walk the road to sobriety alone, no matter how hard I tried. With the help of others like myself I was able to rekindle my long dormant spiritual roots and receive a gift of grace through an honest and deep connection with my own being, my fellows and my innate moral principles. With human and spiritual help, anyone of us can get sober and find a new, extraordinary life. The reward far surpasses the effort, and is available to all.

The author is a retired physician living in the Midwest where he got sober in 2006. He is an Ivy League college English Major and avid reader, loves pre-Code Hollywood films, relaxes by gardening and woodturning, and lives with two seventeen year old headstrong rescue cats in a farmhouse built in 1842.