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
Time to check out
October 2020
| Money and Sobriety
“It’s progress, not perfection.” If you see me “in action” at a grocery store, please, I beg you, don’t tell my sponsor how I acted.
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
Out to lunch
October 2018
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
Dear Grapevine
November 2015
We Never Know What God Has Planned
October 2015
How a sober mom just kept showing up and somehow ended up with the keys to Intergroup
I Kissed My Baby Goodbye
October 2014
A mother goes to jail at nine months sober, yet finds a beautiful way to get through it
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