Roger Simpson:  

i consider that there are 15 essentials of well-being that i now have some of them. denied all of them and i started drinking over again and wow pandora's box. just getting over another bed bug attack in my group home in daly city i share with eleven crackheads. hoping to graduate this spring from csm and looking ahead to taking spanish this summer at skyline. my ambition dis to be a grant writer for expanded services for san mateo county's people who have mental illnesses. friends from school, recovery groups going back 25 years, the guys i live with, being invited to the commonwealth club and college fraternity downtown lunch,fighting deadlines,enjoying down time. i'm probably the best person who knows all the bus schedules to get around on. since my late beloved 1970 cadillac hearse went to the recycling yard, i'm pretty much a public transit kid. what part of green don't you understand,huh?just kidding. i retired in 1992 from a food service career that as a highlight i got to work for gary danko in san mateo until i drank that gig away. looking back in retrospect i washed around one million plates saucers cups bowls pots and pans silverware you name it. remember carafes? do they still use those anymore. now i do not have permission to wash the dishes at home or at my brother bobby's on weekends in burlingame. some people need a little dishpan therapy from time to time. now i like to practice with one arm behind my back as if i might in the future have a stroke. in the 90's i was befriended by a single mom from san mateo and it got a little difficult she getting pre...Expand for more