Lighting the Way
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
A remote communities chair was surprisingly prepared when the COVID-19 crisis hit
Missing All The Hugs
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
As life takes a swing at us, we seem to be responding like the champs we are. With God’s grace, life will settle down and hopefully we’ll return to our meetings.
My Last One
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
Sneaking, lying, crashing in the tub and passing out under his desk. This is one he never wants to forget
Changing Course
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
I was nourished by these women. What resonated loudly was hearing that “getting sober is like trying to turn the Titanic around.” The woman’s words shook me to my core.
Sentenced: A Good Life
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
An old-timer remembers the judge in the 1960s who sent him to Ed, who cracked open the gate to freedom
The Thinker
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
I read all the works of the great philosophers—and I do mean all. I did not have an epiphany.
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