The Ahnung Way – 5 years later the seeds are sprouting!

December 20, 1968 … it was 55 years ago today when my Papa’s spirit was set free. I had just turned 4. And this year, 2023, is also the 10th anniversary of the passing of Ahnung, my soul dog whom I believe my Papa sent to me to help me in my healing. This yearContinue reading “The Ahnung Way – 5 years later the seeds are sprouting!”

Celebrating 35 years of sobriety

Written on October 1, 2023, Marilou Chanrasmi Today  I celebrate 35 years of sobriety. On October 1, 1988 I walked into an AA 12-step meeting after checking out of Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. The same hospital my Papa had died on December 20, 1968 when I was 4 years old. 35 years agoContinue reading “Celebrating 35 years of sobriety”

The Ahnung Way .. the beginning

How did The Ahnung Way come to be? (originally written in May, 2018) Ahnung (means ‘star’ in ojibwemowin, the language of the Anishinaabe people) was rescued by an elder at Red Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota in the fall of 2008. She was a stray and just had a litter of puppies and no frontContinue reading “The Ahnung Way .. the beginning”