 By Charles E. Smith | Bio
This is the third in a three-part series. Read the previous post.
Membership in Explainers Anonymous™ is free. We only have
meetings if someone asks. There is no email address, no fax and no
phone. All you need to do is admit you are hopelessly attached to your
own and others’ explanations and that you want to get free. People all
over the world are joining up. Still, people ask me, “What’s the price of my addiction to explaining?” Why worry about it?[ Read More]
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio
Explainers Anonymous™ is for people who can’t help explaining they are dedicated victims of circumstance. Explaining, like taking a drink, need not be not a problem. Telling a
story to entertain or teach is wonderful. Sometimes explanations are
really useful (such as in telling the doctor why your hand is bleeding)
or when they warn you of something (such as in looking both ways before
crossing the street because you might get killed). Sometimes they are
useful as long as everyone understands it’s an explanation—and only one
out of a hundred thousand possibilities.[ Read More]
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By Charlie Smith | Bio
Explainers Anonymous™ is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to help people addicted to
explaining everything. My name is Charlie. I started it.
It began in 1997 a few months after I retired. I woke one morning and said to myself: "I now have no work, no place to go, no future source of earned income,
no people telling other people about me. The phone doesn't ring and too
many of my e-mails are ads. I diet until 6 o'clock and then eat like a
pig. I go to the health club, work out and lose no weight. I have lists
full of grand schemes swarming over my desk, but the truth is that
almost nothing is actually going on. My big accomplishment of the day
so far was to take a shower."
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