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March 1976

My Nine-step Program

A collection of wisdom that didn't work

SHORTLY AFTER coming to AA in 1959, I devised my own nine-step program, a mishmash of things I had heard at meetings or things other AAs had told me in discussions. For the most part, I avoided the Twelve Steps program--particularly the middle portion, which required an inventory and the repairing of the damage I had done.

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