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Passing it on

January 2024 | Emotional Sobriety
What began as a frantic search for a beloved ceramic buddy became a beautiful, unexpected lesson in letting go

Passing it on

Magazine Issue January 2024 | Topics Emotional Sobriety Homegroup/Meetings

Always Hope

July 2023 | Annual Prison Issue
An oldtimer shares some things he’s learned to keep his head above water on the long, sober swim

Always Hope

Magazine Issue July 2023 | Topics Oldtimers Emotional Sobriety Homegroup/Meetings

Letting go

March 2022 | Emotional Sobriety
How a longtimer learned to observe her thoughts and identify her defects so they don’t take her freedom away

Letting go

Magazine Issue March 2022 | Topics On the Cover AA Literature Emotional Sobriety Family Homegroup/Meetings Spirituality

To Value You More

April 2021 | Fun in Sobriety
One day in her Step study group, an oldtimer discovers something brand-new about Step Four. Proof that the learning and growing never stops

Forgiveness Set Me Free

April 2020 | Home Group
My hatred for this man was festering in my soul. I sat there in court praying that he’d get a life sentence. Then he got up and spoke.

Forgiveness Set Me Free

Magazine Issue April 2020 | Topics Emotional Sobriety Letters from Readers (Dear Grapevine) Spirituality

A day at the museum

May 2018
A few days after doing her Fifth Step, a mother takes her kids on a field trip

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