Heaven on Earth
April 2024
| Happy Birthday Big Book!
With a wife, a dog, a garden, a woodshop and a great sponsor, this oldtimer says life’s a grand gift
Keeping it going
December 2023
| Remote Communities and sober holidays
The Patron Saint of AA
September 2022
| Young & Sober
A once bleeding deacon learns to recognize that service to the Fellowship ought to come from a place of love
On the go
May 2022
| 60th Anniversary of the Concepts
In our area, we help members. We have a service called “Meetings to Go” that provides AA volunteers to bring meetings to homes or hospitals for those who cannot get to meetings.
Light in the Darkness
May 2022
| 60th Anniversary of the Concepts
I was reading it aloud to the girls, and I got emotional. This surprised me because that hadn’t happened the first time I read it alone.
Old Friends & Good Times
March 2022
| Emotional Sobriety
I’ve had a subscription to Grapevine since the early 1980s. The magazine sits on my end table and every morning I read one story.
Glad we took the steps
January 2022
| Beginners
I pointed to the AA sign and said, “Let’s go up there” My dad said, “Oh, no.”
When we got home, I told my mother about this and she remarked, “Oh yes, your father needs to go up there.”
When we got home, I told my mother about this and she remarked, “Oh yes, your father needs to go up there.”
Caution: Busy life
October 2021
| Cooperation With Professionals (CPC)
Work, travel, caretaking...how could she ever get to enough meetings? The answer was just a phone call away
True to Ourselves
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
A surprise discovery reminds one member how important it is to share our stories. We never know who they might help
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