"Hobby Home Grp Here!," or more simply
, began as the name of a subject,
under the topic Hobbies, and the moved to Alcoholism Recovery,
in the Medical Support Bulletin Board, on the Prodigy Service.
Now, we have our own message center right here on the web itself,
at the HHGH
Message Board or you can join our mailing list at
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We are a small group within a worldwide fellowship
of people who share their experience, strength and hope with each
other that they may solve their common problem and help others
to recover from alcoholism.
The only requirement for 'membership' is to find us
on the internet, or at HHGH
Message Board , and join in the discussion, and - share, share,
share (to use the phrase coined by a man from Michigan that many
of us refer to as the 'Chairman of the Board'). Our group has
always welcomed all newcomers and will continue to do so with
open arms as long as we still exist.
Of course, there are, like elsewhere in our 'parent'
fellowship, a microcosm of everybody in the whole world - and
some of them are, would you believe, what are in some places referred
to as 'wags', in others as 'smart-a.. lecs' (this IS after all,
a family board)!!
And some of those wags like to playfully welcome newcomers
to our midst by asking some "sacred" [actually, closer
to cockamamie] questions so that HHGH newbies can
acclimate themselves to our fun-loving bunch right off the bat.
The usual questions asked vary from time to time, but are usually
in the vein of : "Do you walk to work? - or bring your lunch?"
(Which is comparatively really one of the saner and easier questions
to answer /\ unlike the tough ones such as "Which shoe do
you put on first in the morning?"!) Not only do the questions
/ answers get new HHGH members quickly acclimated
to our brand of lightheartedness, but entertain the 'oldies' (but
goodies) who have been around a while, as well as letting everybody
sorta loosen up and get comfortable with each other.
Not that our sharing is all joking and laughing, because
the members of HHGH seem to have a most magically
empathetic quality we have shared with each other over the years.
That magic has shown us to collectively have the loving and caring
attitudes which have drawn us so close to each other, that we
refer to each other as 'our family-of-choice'!
A loving 'motto' (a special phrase which came straight
from the heart of an HHGHer in New Jersey) has emerged
from our warmest moments, as well as our mutually shared laughs,
tears, hugs, advice, tiffs, consensus's, arguments, agreements,
longings, joys, sadnesses, good times, bad times, active times,
inactive (lurking) times, fears, life's desires you know,
the 'stuff of life' and that is:
" We Belong ! "