Connecting
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
He needed a new kidney. What he got was proof that his Higher Power was working overtime
God, I Need You Right Now
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
The woman said "Come on in. honey. We are waiting for you.” And the dark hole inside her began to fill
A Week in the Life of Lisa
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
The call to service unites a group of AA women around one troubled soul
No Regrets: It Took What It Took
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
Personal pain, two DUI’s, time in jail—he doesn’t regret the past, but he’s not shutting the door on it, either
The Accident
July 2017
His life began with tragedy and could have ended that way, but then the program intervened
Here I Am
July 2017
Broken, lost and scared, she found herself in the back of a police car—which, strangely, was the answer to her prayers
The 13th Meeting
July 2017
After a drunken-driving conviction, the court ordered him to go to 12 meetings. It took him eight years to make the 13th
The Strange Mental Blank Spot
July 2017
An alcoholic does battle with the strange mental blank spot that separates her (and all alcoholics) from the rest of humanity
Living Proof
July 2017
How a good kid descended into a life of liquor and jails and found a new way to live in prison
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