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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

At My Father's Grave

March 2013

Heads Up

March 2013
AA tools help her stand up straight, face her life and see the light of day

If She Hadn't. . .

September 2002
It was all my sister's fault

The Watering Hole

September 2002
Even lions and zebras know that some places are sacred

Reality Is the Antidote

April 1976
Our fantasy worlds never wear very well

Shy?

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

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