Reality: What Is It and Why Is It Important:

by George Polley

Learning to identify and accept reality as it is rather than as we would like it to be is one of the most important steps in a person's recovery from addiction. Like it or not, reality is just what it is, and situations are just what they are. This booklet is intended to be a travel guide as you learn to identify reality, accept it for what it is, and move forward on the awesome journey of your recovery of the person you were meant to be.

48 pages, Paperback

Published October 2, 2006

About the author

Originally from Seattle, my wife and I moved to Sapporo, Japan in early 2008, where I write full time.

I began writing in the mid 1960s, beginning with a novel (unpublished) and poetry. My first short story, "Jonah's Birth" was published in "The South Dakota Review". Since then I've published fiction & poetry in a number of publications, including "The Palestine Chronicle", "The View From Here" and "A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories" (Mohammad Quayum, editor) published by Marshall Cavendish Editions, Singapore, in 2011.

Three of my novels ("The Old Man and the Monkey", "Grandfather and the Raven" and "Bear", a novel about an unusual dog and his human friend Andy, are published by Taylor Street Publishing, San Francisco. "The City Has Many Faces", a novel set in Mexico City, has just been completed.