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To Speak or Not to Speak

March 2021 | Making Amends
Reluctant to share at meetings, a teacher says she’s grateful for Tradition Three.
It gave her room to grow until service helped give her a voice

To Speak or Not to Speak

Magazine Issue March 2021 | Topics Gratitude Service/Into Action

Painful ego-puncturing

October 2015
New in town, she dove into service and wanted a position. What she got was an opportunity to grow

Thoughts on the Traditions

July 2014
An AA wonders if we are welcoming enough to newcomers

39 Reasons to Dance

September 2012
She has never forgotten the Bill W. dinner that helps pay for the phones that saved her life

A Resentment and a Coffee Pot

January 2005
It doesn't take much to start a meeting

A Not-so-new Newcomer

March 2003
It's never too late to join the Fellowship--even after twenty-four years in AA

The Same Great Chance for Sobriety

March 1998
Tradition Three

Just Show Up

March 1988

Man With a Big Red Parrot On His Shirt

December 1987

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