Living My Life
November 2020
| Our Twelve Traditions
Life’s challenges keep unfolding for this old-timer.
So does the help we get when we reach out
So does the help we get when we reach out
My Monkey Mind
March 2020
| Puzzled
How right action stops his negative thinking and keeps him from swinging from the same old tree
Clearer than ever
January 2020
| Spiritual Awakenings
A private investigator discovers that faith, not sight, would lead him out of the dark
More Than Enough
January 2020
| Spiritual Awakenings
Fresh clothes, holding your head up, saying hi to neighbors, a warm cup of coffee...it’s the little things
The Invisible Life Raft
September 2019
| Young & Sober
After more than twenty years sobriety, he continues to be grateful to the program that saved him
Defining humility
July 2019
| The Prison Issue
The color of love
December 2018
| Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities
In a big red house in San Francisco, heart after heart opens as AA shows up at his door
No fly zone
September 2018
A final drunken trip to “the hole” woke him up. Now he has hope and some to share
In the warm sunlight
August 2018
Sitting at her aunt’s table, she was content just doing what was in front of her
The Slippery Slope
June 2018
He was a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde drinker all his life—respectable, but with a hidden “inventory” of booze
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