“Don’t Change Anything Your First Year In AA”
June 2017
Instead of making the wrong changes, he took the Steps he needed to make the ones that have kept him sober for more than 30 years
The Solitary
June 2017
All his drinking buddies had died or drifted away, and he was left sipping pint bottles in secret in his car. But then AA brought him a new and better way of life
Finding Sobriety Through Quantum Physics
June 2017
For this young student newly arriving in AA, restoring his life to sanity found a parallel in the dizzying movements of subatomic particles
The Forever Loop
June 2017
Trapped in an endless nightmare of drinking, blackouts, and hospital stays, he met a nurse who showed him there was only one real way to break the cycle
The Walls
June 2017
He built a wall so high others couldn’t get in and he couldn’t get out. Then AA entered his life and he understood he wasn’t alone, after all
At the Fish Fry
March 2014
While looking for a grand spiritual experience, he came to see that his awakening was the result of many moments along the way
The Day It Ended
March 2014
He reached his bottom while sitting in a psychiatrist's office with his wife and son
A Place in the World
March 2014
Living in a predominately white country overseas, an African American man discovers that he can feel at home in an AA meeting anywhere
A Reader's Response
March 2014
An article on cross talk in the November 2013 Grapevine got this AA thinking
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