In Service Heaven

In the shadow of the Allegheny Mountains, where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers join to form the Ohio River, lies the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was after 11:00 on a wintry Saturday night in Steeltown, and I was a good four-and-a-half-hour drive from home, but I wasn’t clinging to a barstool or passed out in some cheap motel. No, I was attending a Grapevine writing workshop at the Northeast Regional AA Service Assembly (NERAASA), and our workshop moderator was putting on a real show.