A Bit About Greg...
I come from a long line of Loving Whacko’s in the NYC area … whose love was sincere… but at times, hurt like hell… in 1967 at the tender age of fourteen, I discovered Sex, Booze, Drugs and Rock & Roll… I had found the antidote for my family!
Stepping from the emotional insanity in my family of origin, into the Military at 17 years of age and then two years later into the screaming insanity of the Vietnam War Easter Offensive in 1972, was not that big of a jump for me… I discovered my Innate talent for hurting people and breaking things, and I excelled at it.
Upon leaving the military I took up off-road motorcycles racing, drinking and fallen women as past times… whereas the drinking soon became fulltime… So, I got married to a promiscuous woman who drank as much as myself… And together we created an emotional meltdown to rival the Nuclear Disaster at Chernobyl… and it only took eight months to do it.
For the next eleven years I tried to find myself in other people… while living in a bottle of Jack Daniel’s Whiskey, floating in a foaming sea of Budweiser beer… Instead of finding myself… I ended up emotionally abusing ten wonderful women… I didn’t know it at the time… But hurt people…Hurt people.
After 20 + years of committing Suicide on the installment plan… I crashed and burned for the last time in late 1987 in the city of Baltimore Maryland, where I ended up after a failed “Geographical Cure” for my addictions.
This is where God jammed me up with a man who in essence, saved my life, by introducing me to the 12-Step concept of recovery, and helping me get started. He was kindly known as “Uncle Ralph” in our small community, and in my opinion, should be rated a Saint, up there with Mahatma Gandi and Mother Theresa.
Working with Uncle Ralph, and my traveling companions on “The Road Less Traveled,” I reviewed the train wreck of my life and discovered I qualified for six different 12-step programs. I found acceptance and invaluable help in all these different programs and the amazing people in them… It was like having eight pairs of eyes to view myself, and the world around me, and the greater Baltimore area was the place to do it. AA alone had 500 groups that offered 800 meetings a week in 1987, the other five 12-step programs offered several hundred more meetings a week, each meeting was chock full of people who not only knew how to recover… they knew how to Live!
That beginning was 36 years ago, and I’m still learning, living, and giving it away… One Day At A Time, and have discovered so many amazing things about the human condition, myself, others and God’s best kept secret… “That the Best way to Help yourself…Is to Help Others”.