You Too Can Stay Sober
May 2018
“Staying sober through adversity” is almost too mild a description for what one alcoholic has survived
Play Ball!
May 2018
The Florida sun was hot and the beer was cold, but she “thought through the drink” and came out on the other side, sober and celebrating
The Spiked Cinnamon Roll
May 2018
A homemade cinnamon roll laced with alcohol became a sober reference point she would never forget
My Name is Gerald and I’m...
May 2018
Scarred by multiple traumas, he turned to AA and found hope—for a new beginning, for life without fear, for happiness
Fitting In
May 2018
He played the clown and partied hard, but was never able to find his place until he got honest about his drinking
Anyone For Tennis?
April 2015
She came to see that hiding booze in tennis ball canisters in the garage was not social drinking
In a Southern Town
April 2015
Alcohol had flashy allure to him when he was young and growing up in a religious home
Back in Brooklyn
April 2015
An old timer reflects on the neighborhood she grew up in and where she started drinking
In the Eye of the Storm
April 2015
With nowhere to go and unable to make it home, she had to depend on the kindness of strangers
Circus Tricks
April 2015
Whether working as a magician or a professor of mathematics, there was always one constant in his life
CARRY THE MESSAGE PROJECT
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