Come April 7, 2017, I will have thirty years sobriety. I am a graduate of the New Hope Program at Serenity Lane when it was on 16th. At every AA meeting we heard someone, including oneself, read this:

“Half  measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon.

Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a Program of Recovery: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable.”

Donald Trump may be on what we call a ‘Dry Drunk’. I do not think he is a drinker. How about his father? Wherever he gets it from, all Americans, and half the world, is on the brink of disaster. The same can be said of Downtown Eugene, as long as I can recall. In 1970 I got off the train and stretched my legs for twenty…