By Means an Introduction

I call this Surviving the Whirlpool as a before and after experience with alcohol and the effects it had on my life.  This won't be so much about my experience as an alcoholic (although I will start with that) - it will be more of my experience of being in the moment.  Living life on life's terms.  I am certainly writing this for myself.  It helps to get it out and expose the darkness to the light of day.  That is the only way to shrink the darkness and keep the disease of alcoholism at bay.  If not for honesty, I would be dead now.  That I know.