Shortly after I returned to the office from lunch, the phone on my desk rang. It was a late autumn day during my first sober AA year.

One woman’s journey to Alcoholics Anonymous began like this: The telephone call was made to the AA phone number and two lovely, clean, sane, sober women were sent to a middle-class subu

EVER since I began in service, I have constantly heard about the need for money in AA to support many different functions and purposes.

In AA, we submerge our differences to focus on alcoholism as our primary problem. But this doesn’t dismiss the notion that we come from widely divergent backgrounds.

I remember when my sponsor gave me an assignment for Step Eleven.

I first attended AA when I was 20. My family pleaded with me to go. I had just moved back in with them after my drinking caused me to drop out of college.

Never underestimate the miracles of sobriety. Prior to getting sober, my wife and I initiated the process of private adoption in hopes of adding a child to our family.

Today I see myself in the stories of other alcoholics, as though I were looking in a mirror. But this was not my experience when I first got to AA in December, 1990.

They said, “Don’t rest on your laurels,” because the enemy never sleeps.

Ever since the COVID lockdown in March, I’ve been attending virtual AA meetings. And I’m starting to develop what I call Z-fects.

One of the multi-layered particularities of sobriety during the COVID-19 health crisis is technology’s role in the pandemic.

It was Thanksgiving 34 years ago, and I was 21.

Twenty-four years into my sobriety, I hit a wall in my work life and kept asking myself and my Higher Power this question: Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life? 

A friend recently remarked to me about what he sees as the increasing use of curse words in AA meetings.

I got sober in May of 1975, and I live in the Temecula area of Southern California.

I’ve heard it said that there’s no loneliness like that of alcoholic isolation. I believe it. The shadow of this disease has been with me as long as I can remember.

I have been a subscriber to Grapevine since I got sober in AA. My sponsor got me a subscription for Christmas, which is a policy I continue with my own sponsees.