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This Beautiful Thing

January 2022 | Beginners
Being present and working the program has given her a joy for life and a deeper sense of purpose

Green Pastures

January 2022 | Beginners
A farm boy shares how he took the seed someone planted and got five decades of a meaningful sober life

The Front Lines

January 2022 | Beginners
Dimly lit rooming houses, emergency rooms, even rooftops— he keeps reaching out. And once in a good while they reach back

Counting Days in my PJs

January 2022 | Beginners
Even in a pandemic, she got sober, connected, traveled the world and made a host of new friends

We are one

January 2022 | Beginners
Once too unique for AA, he now sees how much we’re the same and how much we need each other

99 problems

January 2022 | Beginners
How was he ever going to get his life in shape and these people off his back? Luckily, his sponsor had a plan

A Prayer for The Ex

January 2022 | Beginners
Oh great. She’s trying to get sober and her husband is suing her. And now they suggest she pray for him? Right!

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.

Right in the Middle

January 2022 | Beginners
In Aruba for her granddaughter’s wedding, a newcomer uses every tool she has to surround herself with AA

My Time on The Hump

January 2022 | Beginners
Road trips, coffeepots, Steps and donuts—a member recalls the journey he took with his first sponsor

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