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Don’t do this!

January 2022 | Beginners
We got out of the car and Kirby stuck a Big Book under his arm and we headed up the walkway, acting like we knew what we were doing. Kirby knocked on the screen door.

Don’t do this!

Magazine Issue January 2022 | Topics Humor On the Cover Beginners/Newcomers Relapse Sponsorship

I Laughed, He Laughed

May 2020 | Getting Into General Service
He took him to events, got him into service and even helped him take out the “garbage.” That was Delmar’s way

Old-timer? Nah!

Magazine Issue March 2020 | Topics Gratitude Service/Into Action Spirituality Sponsorship

Old-timer? Nah!

March 2020 | Puzzled
Sponsors still sponsor. Some are tough. Some, like me, are soft. Most sponsors are patient. I have had three and I owe them my life.

Big Smile, Bigger Heart

December 2019 | Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
He and the coach could not have been more different, but they made it work. Just ask Miss Myrna

H.O.W. Keeps Saving My Life

February 2016

A Redirected Life

August 2015
Unable to work because of an alcohol-related illness when he came to AA, sobriety enabled him to build a new career

You Are it

June 2008
A new take on sponsorship

PO BOX 1980

February 2008
My sponsor, my self

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