I'm Katiedog. I'm an alcoholic, and a recent meeting on the Tenth Step left me deep in contemplation -- and gratitude for the way the Steps in this God-given program flow one to the next. My discovery: by the time I found myself, I was somebody else -- which is why the Tenth Step becomes increasingly important to me with the passage of sober time. To put it another way, the first nine Steps "thoroughly followed" are incredibly transforming. Add to that the passage of time itself -- different decades, different roadblocks -- and the need for an ongoing inventory ("how am I doing TODAY?") looms larger than ever in my life. Oh, once in a while something long-buried pops up and I need to re-visit Step Four. But mostly it's the continuing inventory of Step Ten that opens the door to the here and now ... and keeps it open.

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