I have been a part of Twelve Step groups for twenty years and I currently serve on the Board of Directors of one of the major fellowships. I am the founder of Ebony OA Website Online a large, global black support group designed to reach out to blacks dealing with obesity and other eating disorders which has a rather broad audience of supporters of cultural diversity. I have had two short pieces published in the Monthly Magazine of the OA fellowship, titled Lifeline, as well as a letter to the editor published in the Northern California Bay Area free paper “The Bay Times.” I served in two branches of the United States Armed Forces; the Air Force Reserves as well as the U.S. Army. My military assignments have taken me from the depths of Petra, city of stone, to the heights of Mount Nebo in the country of Jordan, fall of 1989. My second trip back to the Middle East was as a Chaplain Assistant in Desert Shield, later named Desert Storm, the first attempt to unseat Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War. I survived tours of duty in Central America and harsh winter exercises in what was then West Germany in 1984-86, including a harrowing unplanned trek in communist East Germany.