The Grateful 5
December 2020
| Remote Communities + Sober Holidays
When COVID-19 struck, our meetings in here stopped. AAs on the outside are fortunate enough to have the Internet. We inmates aren’t so lucky.
Wet in a Dry Country
December 2020
| Remote Communities + Sober Holidays
A social worker puts on her AA hat and says a few prayers to help an alcoholic on the other side of the world
Time to be kind
December 2020
| Remote Communities + Sober Holidays
Through a little faith and effort, a husband’s longtime holiday resentment becomes a gift to someone he loves
A Whole New World
December 2020
| Remote Communities + Sober Holidays
A daughter returning home for the holidays shares her joy about how AA has transformed her family
At Wit’s End
December 2020
| Remote Communities + Sober Holidays
Stuck in the Revolving Door
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He found himself spinning in and out of the drinking life, over and over again
Not Just Another Bender
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After a painful drinking career, she discovered an “ordinary, yet extraordinary” life in AA
Drinking Was Fun Until It Wasn’t
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As a child, she was fascinated by the allure of liquor stores. As an adult, they became places of despair
Maybe I Am One
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Even as a hard-drinking cop he thought he had escaped the “plague” that ran in his family. It took AA to show him he hadn’t
The Hard and Stubborn Lot
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Fearful at first, he helped an inmate find a life outside of prison—and discovered they shared more than he had thought possible
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