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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

Go Tell It to the Doctor

November 1978
The doctor thought she ought to be dead and was curious to know why she wasn't - From the May 1967 Grapevine

I'm Worried About You, Old-Timer. . .

November 1978
and about some of the things you told me a few years ago - From the December 1970 Grapevine

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