Wherever I Am
August 2022
| Sober Travel
Many cruise lines have “Friends of Bill” meetings. I’ve met people there from all over the world. I still talk to a woman I met more than seven years ago on my very first sober cruise.
We Are All Welcome
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A former drinking friend turns into a guiding sponsor
11/29/94
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Seduced, consumed, and abandoned by alcohol, he found a future in AA
A Series of Fortunate Events
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Was it pure chance that he survived to get sober? Or a Power greater than himself?
Money is a Tool
November 2020
| Our Twelve Traditions
Just to spite them all, I abstained from putting my dollar in that basket. This did not change anyone’s response. I began to see there was something more to their concern.
Ghosts of Meetings Past
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His program is peopled by those who are no longer with us, but live on in memory
The Sober Saint
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We are not saints, but the message of sobriety we give and receive is a sacred one
My guide to the wild west
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
Getting sober can be a wonderful journey with the right someone showing the way
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