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An Easier Softer Cake

June 2020 | The Annual Prison Issue
With just the right ingredients, one member’s recipe for sobriety cooked up a life-saving meal

Lucky Break

June 2020 | The Annual Prison Issue
Thanks to her mother’s love and alcoholic journey, she knew what to do and where to go

Stealing pens

June 2020 | The Annual Prison Issue
I feel a bit embarrassed that old behavior (snatching what I want) is still so close to the surface, even after a number of years in the program.

Restraint of Face

June 2020 | The Annual Prison Issue
Eye-rolling, sighing, sideways glances and head tilts...sometimes the defects we hold onto aren’t so verbal

I Still Sit up Front, I Still Raise my Hand

March 2012
After 20 years, this alcoholic does not have all the answers

Chance Encounter

March 2012
A kind message from a customer in the grocery store turned his AA program around

Hanging with the Girls

March 2012
She learned how to make and keep friends in AA

Starting at Zero

March 2012
It took a long time of being in AA before he could take the First Step

Shy?

April 1976
Why do we worry too much about what others may think of us?

Pride

April 1976
First in a series dealing with seven deadly character defects

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