Keeping Sobriety Fresh

I recently attended my first District Assembly Meeting for Area 51 in North Carolina. I went with my husband, who had volunteered at our new home group as a GSR. We had recently moved to North Carolina after 25 sober years in AA in Florida. Having left long-standing meetings, fellowship and support, we needed to meet fellow AAs fast, as the long, cold winter was getting to our sanity. A few weeks before the Assembly, I chose to attend an AA womens’ retreat to meet some sober women in the beautiful mountains of our state. Then, with my husband of 19 years, off I went to Raleigh for our first District Assembly.