Keeping my place
August 2017
Thanks to his Big Book, a father in Michigan built a history in sobriety—sometimes with crayons
The Strange Mental Blank Spot
July 2017
An alcoholic does battle with the strange mental blank spot that separates her (and all alcoholics) from the rest of humanity
The 13th Meeting
July 2017
After a drunken-driving conviction, the court ordered him to go to 12 meetings. It took him eight years to make the 13th
Here I Am
July 2017
Broken, lost and scared, she found herself in the back of a police car—which, strangely, was the answer to her prayers
The Accident
July 2017
His life began with tragedy and could have ended that way, but then the program intervened
The Diagnosis
July 2017
For a decade after his diagnosis, his choice of medication was alcohol. Sobriety taught him a different way
The Glass Palace
July 2017
God has his own way of distributing gifts to those who ask for them—this alcoholic did not know he was even in the queue until his Higher Power intervened
Magic Words
July 2017
It was just a simple slogan taped to a coffee urn, but way back in 1973 it helped one beginner bet his life on AA
My Real Third Step
July 2017
After years of unemployment, he faces the loss of his home—but turning his life over to a Higher Power meant finally turning his life around
Alcoholism At Large
July 2017
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