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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

The Ex-Mother-In-Law

July 2015
In her mind, she needed to punish the awful woman who took her kids, but her Higher Power had a better idea

Removing the Muck

July 2015

The River's Flow

July 2015
After diving back into the program, a member with 27 years returns to a familiar wooded spot and learns a beautiful lesson

The Invisible Threshold

July 2015
She thought if she told the truth in the rooms, she would be cast out, shunned and unloved. It turned out the opposite was true

Shy?

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

Pride

April 1976
First in a series dealing with seven deadly character defects

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