Staying in my Lane
April 2022
| What's On Your Mind?
If I’m a sober woman of any worth at all, then I’m required by all the gifts God has given me to repair whatever small tear I can in the universe.
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
Time to check out
October 2020
| Money and Sobriety
“It’s progress, not perfection.” If you see me “in action” at a grocery store, please, I beg you, don’t tell my sponsor how I acted.
Dear Grapevine
April 2020
| Home Group
Lucky Me
March 2020
| Puzzled
That man’s share changed my sobriety that day. I stopped wanting fairness; I now wanted mercy, for myself and everyone else.
To remember without anger
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
The program helped him find compassion, love and a new definition of forgiveness
With lots of help
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
Workaholic
October 2018
This sober businesswoman’s career really took off, but her program ran out of steam
Lying on my resume
October 2018
The “secrets of success” he heard at meetings taught him a valuable lesson about honesty
The Perfect Interview
January 2018
| Sponsorship
Bottle down, tie on, all ready to go. He was going to get this job. He just knew it. So why was everyone staring at him?
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