The Importance of Unity
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
One member says we should take good care how we describe our meetings, because our common welfare comes first
Help Wanted
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
I had been fired again. I was hitting bottom, though I didn’t know that at the time. I picked up the pay phone in the coffee shop. That was my First Step.
Surrender
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
A moment on a winter day reminds him that if we just let go and give up
fighting we can let others help us fly again
fighting we can let others help us fly again
Been There
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
I went to Vietnam. I worked for five police departments. I ended up on the street. Today I have friends all over the world who have never seen me drink.
We keep in touch
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
From pay phones to cassette tapes to virtual meetings, she’s still happily doing whatever it takes
It takes a village
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
A longtime member in Tennessee gleefully remembers the wonderful oldtimers who gave him his start
Seemingly Miraculous
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
In a long life of sobriety the difficult challenges do come and go, but the good times are so worth it all
Everything I looked for in a Bottle
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
Sober since 1966, she looks back at her life as a single mother and how AA gave her everything she needed
The Magic Pill
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
Years ago he came in looking for something to fix him. Before he knew it, the answer was in his hand
63 Wonderful Years
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
Hopping in and out of virtual meetings all over the world, a mother of four who got sober in 1957 has really seen it all
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