Here’s a little background. I’m 46 years old with 26 years of sobriety. I got sober in August of 1993, right before my 20th birthday.

I was only about 90 days sober when my home group’s treasurer stood up right before our Sunday night AA meeting and announced that she had spent the entire treasury on herself, includin

Not long ago, I made a list of all the things I couldn’t do. It was kind of an anti-gratitude list.

Like many people who come through the doors of AA to find sobriety, my life was in shambles.

In early sobriety, I learned a lot about Tradition Seven from pocket change and a box of freezer bags. I was a year and a half sober and hadn’t worked the Steps.

One of the things I’ve been taught to do in AA is to honor the Seventh Tradition by using the word “contribute” rather than “donate.” Donation implies charitable causes.

My first home group was exciting. It gave me the feeling that I had found someplace where I really belonged.

We were due at the birthday party in just a few minutes. We were almost always late to parties, but we had to be early for this one because we were hosting.

I’ve done it all. I don’t drink. I go to meetings. I call my sponsor. I did the Steps. I gladly do service. And of course, I reach out to help other alcoholics.

Before i ever attended a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous, I reaped benefits from Tradition Ten.

For reasons I can’t recall, Lucy and I did not drive together to our home group that Wednesday night. “Meet you there,” I’d told her.

I came into AA and got sober in 2009. Back then, I had been on layoff from work due to the weak economy. I was attending as many as four AA meetings a day.

It’s been 98 days since New York City declared a state of emergency due to the COVID outbreak.

I used to be a teacher and a coach. I was actually sober for two years before the legal system took my case to trial. I’m now serving a five-year sentence for a DUI.

In my first 30 years of life, I was educated in religion, both in school and in church.

An old-timer at my home group used to say in a raspy smoker’s voice, “If you’re on a pink cloud, you’re going to need a pink parachute.” Eventually, I came to realize it was his way of

I’m a mother of two boys, ages 6 and 4. I am also an alcoholic, sober just a little more than one year. Neither of these things are easy on their own, but combined?

The first eleven Steps of AA certainly woke my spirits up. How about you?

When I had just eight months sober, I was stationed onboard a Naval communications facility located in a small Philippine town.

Bob Dylan sang about being a rolling stone, and I was one too. I've moved a lot in my life.

When I first read our Twelve Concepts, I was confused. I ignored them for a long time. Then I started going to a monthly AA meeting on the Concepts.