Scott Cluthe's Love Cafe

Scott shares Thursday night with Steve Ryals, author of Drunk With Wonder, Steve Ryals, author of Drunk with Wonder: Awakening to the God Within, went from homeless and shooting drugs in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district at seventeen to graduating from U. C. Berkeley on the Dean's List six years later. Steve’s book, Drunk with Wonder: Awakening to the God Within is the culmination of years of research and decades of personal experience. It's been hailed as where "Conversations with God meets What the Bleep Do We Know?" Steve was raised in a home filled with love but also filled with hurt, anger, secrets and both emotional and physical abuse. Not surprisingly, Steve took to drugs and alcohol like a Rottweiler takes to delivery people. Though it took decades, Steve has been completely substance use free for over eight years. Steve founded Rock Creek Press in 1990, and has self-published three poetry books as well as the work of other authors. From 1994-2004, Steve was a freelance music reviewer for New