There’s a rather rough looking gathering sharing the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center with us. Recovering alcoholics and narcotics abusers. Not all of them fit the ponytailed, goateed, tattooed mold. They wear plastic ID badges like chains around their necks. I observe that spouses wear them too. Are they there with them for moral support, or were they partners in crime? Shoot. Some have their whole fam damily with them! (can’t be a child’s idea of a fun weekend) I acknowledge my fortune in not having been reared with that kind of element.