52 Years Ago
May 2024
| How the Steps Changed My Life
Letting go
March 2022
| Emotional Sobriety
How a longtimer learned to observe her thoughts and identify her defects so they don’t take her freedom away
Spot Check On I-94
October 2020
| Money and Sobriety
Trying to hold it together with a car full of rambunctious kids, a sober dad gets more and more lost. Time for Step Ten!
Even if the truth hurts
October 2019
| Is AA Accessible to all who need it?
At his daughter’s school one day, a sober dad learns a valuable lesson about telling lies
Nothing held back
May 2018
An old-timer shares about the freedom the Steps have given him and how he gets to pass them on.
Jumping to Conclusions
October 2017
Wild kids next door were causing trouble and she had to do something. She had no idea she was leaping headfirst into Step Ten
Lives We Change
March 2017
In a small-town church, a man arrives to thank his daughter’s home group for the love they gave her
100 quilts
February 2017
How a drunken grandma put down the bottle and began to patch together a warm, useful life
No way out
September 2016
He escaped a troubled childhood by joining the army. But he couldn’t escape the bottle
Listening for 50 years
September 2016
In 1965, an old-timer heard the bartender say last call. Five decades later, he’s still using his ears
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