RSPA: Bond Wrote from His Painful Experiences

From previous thread about Bond here

Bond used to write for the S-R. He is an admitted alcoholic and wrote some astonishingly raw and painfully eloquent columns about his drinking and recovery. He was a rare columnist who would actually dip his pen in his blood and write with emotional truth. You’ll never read Doug Clark, for example, writing with 1/10th the heart that Bond was capable of. That’s cool, Clark has a thing he does and he does it well. But Clark’s emotionally constricted range goes from anger to outrage, with a little fussiness in between. Nobody ever remembers stuff Clark writes but I still remember a column by Bond where he describes drunkenly ruining his daughter’s birthday party and getting on the wagon. It was one of the most brutally honest things I’ve ever read. Obviously Bond’s not in recovery these days and his writing seems to be a pale shadow of what he did for the S-R years ago. Kinda sad, he was always a must read for me back in the day.

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