As difficult as all of your struggles with your addiction have been, I suspect writing such an intimate revelation of your emotional journey was the most difficult of all. It takes an enormous amount of courage and self-realization to examine oneself with such honesty and realism. You have my highest admiration for doing so.
Take good care of yourself and stay safe.
Well that really made me think about my own life, and to pinpoint issues I have ... thank you Scott, those are some of the most deeply moving words I have ever read from you, and poigniant too. The other day I was thinking about how much I like listening to you talk, this reminds me how much I love to read what you write. You are many things Scott, and gifted orator, and gifted writer are clearly among them, ... as well as, of course, ... dumb Marine (your words), though I've never seen you bei…
I have friends in Russia that I have known for more than 30 years! People I first met in '91 and '92, when I was living in the USSR and working at Leningrad Television. They are good people. I know them and I trust them. I will always trust them in spite of whatever hostilities arise between our nations. I am impervious to the virus of Russophobia because I am inoculated by these friends. But most people have never been to Russia and don't really know any Russians. To inoculate them, we must in…