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Back in the game

April 2023 | AA & Families
A close brush with death showed him how much he is loved and how grateful he is to be sober

Back in the game

Magazine Issue April 2023 | Topics Oldtimers Getting through Adversity Homegroup/Meetings Personal Stories Spirituality

Put me to Work

October 2022 | Relapse
When you show up at a district meeting looking for a job, it doesn’t take long before you get one

Put me to Work

Magazine Issue October 2022 | Topics Groups Homegroup/Meetings Service/Into Action

Public Information

September 2019 | Young & Sober
How the author became a member of a PI committee—and how service enriches her life

Came to Believe

June 2019 | Letting Go of Resentments
A former inmate’s eloquent plea for help and service to America’s prisons

Service in A Battered Suitcase

February 2019 | Stories by Our Longtime Members
A clear-eyed look at the beauty (and difficulty) of service

Rest in Peace

December 2018 | Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities
A dying man spreads the message of AA in an Ontario snowstorm—and the person who receives it continues the cycle of love and service

Thanks, I See the Light

November 2018
He’d quit drinking before, without a problem. Why not now?

Relief Is Not Release

July 2018
He’d been sober a long time, but a glass of whiskey nearly found its way into his hand. It was because he wasn’t fully living the program

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