Unity is the Gift
June 2020
| The Annual Prison Issue
A secular AA member shares about his struggles, how service heals and how good it is to tear down borders that divide us
An unexpected call
June 2020
| The Annual Prison Issue
My phone rang at 3 in the morning. The voice on the other end was crying.
It was my father. Seventy-two hours later, I was in my parents’ home.
It was my father. Seventy-two hours later, I was in my parents’ home.
Stealing pens
June 2020
| The Annual Prison Issue
I feel a bit embarrassed that old behavior (snatching what I want) is still so close to the surface, even after a number of years in the program.
Tenth Step Thoughts
October 1962
Would AA's Fourth Step have changed the ending of the famous old horror story? A famous doctor thinks it might
The Washingtonians:
October 1962
How some basic AA ideas were tried out nearly a century and a quarter ago. . .
The Twelve Steps Revisited / Step 10
October 1962
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
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