Morning Prayer
July 2022
| The Annual Prison Issue
I’m thinking about what I will do today to enhance my sobriety. Clean house with my wife? Answer calls from my sponsees? Buy a motorcycle? I’m here to enjoy the ride.
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
Keeping a lid on it
September 2021
| Young & Sober!
My sponsor got a chuckle out of my first reaction to the over-stuffed garbage can. I was once again reminded that if I learn to laugh at myself, I can have a lifetime of entertainment.
Leaning In
September 2021
| Young & Sober!
After devastating news, he dives into the program, walks through the fear and holds onto faith
Freshly Squeezed Sobriety
November 2020
| Our Twelve Traditions
Wearing orange juice cans and a wine-stained robe, she opened the door to AA. Because of Tradition Three, they opened the door to her
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.
Sentenced: A Good Life
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
An old-timer remembers the judge in the 1960s who sent him to Ed, who cracked open the gate to freedom
Restraint of Face
June 2020
| The Annual Prison Issue
Eye-rolling, sighing, sideways glances and head tilts...sometimes the defects we hold onto aren’t so verbal
Dear Grapevine
April 2020
| Home Group
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