Character flaws: anxiety, impatience, criticism of others, hard on myself Character traits: good listener, smart, kind, thoughtful

Cooking, travel, getting outside!

I keep my fingernails short.

Am craving all sorts - I'm in no-man's-land at the moment

Current: The Dream of Scipio

Most recent: You Kill Me (hilarious, about a mobster going to A.A.)

Alcoholics Anonymous, KUD Kardeslik (a Turkish community project where we live), The Milagro Center

I got into yoga when I got into A.A. I wasn't such a bottom-out kind of alcoholic, but I DID mess up my life and relationships...and I DID black out a few times. So, I was lucky. Now, I kind of see life differently. I work on my character flaws. I pray a lot more. I try to be a better person ... one day at a time.