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I’m thinking about what I will do today to enhance my sobriety. Clean house with my wife? Answer calls from my sponsees? Buy a motorcycle? I’m here to enjoy the ride.

He found sobriety—and life—in the Big Book

Even though it’s growing in size, her home group remains a place of family, connection and purpose

Where would she ever find AA on a remote mountain during a pandemic? She was about to be surprised

Two decades of sobriety later, she gives thanks as naturally as breathing

For years, she tried desperately to fit in like everyone else. It was AA that finally gave her a way to feel normal

Every evening at 9:15 a group of a half-dozen people would come in, grab a table and drink coffee. I became friends with them.

During a record-setting blizzard, a home group finds a warm, safe way to gather

When she understood that God’s plan for her might be different from the one she had in mind, she was able to accept the ever-changing story of her sobriety

It was a glamorous party, among beautiful people—but what happened next stayed with her until she chose recovery and changed her life

I got sober when I was 24, and I often state that you don’t stop drinking when you’re 24 unless it was really bad.

When it comes to saying the Lord’s Prayer, one member offers his own helpful interpretation

Standing there waiting for his ride to work, a beginner looks up at the dawn sky—and discovers in the morning stars a gift of light, awareness, and self-knowledge.

Are the Steps really “suggestions?” One brave AA takes a careful stroll through the minefield of “whose program is this, anyway?”