October 31, 2024
What Brought Us Into AA? It was the realization that we had no power to help ourselves. We had relied entirely upon ourselves because we liked […]
July 1, 2024
What all does AA give us? A member in Kentucky attempts to answer. A newcomer recently asked me what AA taught me. I thought, how on […]
June 4, 2024
What should I do—or not do! Using the same sort of foul language that I used as a thirteen-year-old to impress my parents that I have […]
April 25, 2024
How Step Two Can Restore Sanity Through Faith in Action This year brings hope that the year of the pandemic with all of its dismal conditions […]
April 4, 2024
I was deeply touched by what I heard a young man at a meeting share about planning a party for his mother. He started to search […]
January 22, 2024
No One Can Be Turned Away The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking (Tradition Three 12&12). After many years of sobriety […]
January 22, 2024
There is a far too prevalent inclination in our fellowship to be annoyed by the fellow who is weighed down by his problems in life. Patient […]
September 25, 2023
My life before alcoholic drinking was nothing to write home about. With very little supervision I did just about anything I wanted to do, and the […]
September 1, 2023
Peace and Happiness of Right Living Coming from a life of poverty in Pittsburgh in the early 1940s, I was conditioned by the environment that I […]
May 4, 2023
I Think Before I Do In my early days of sobriety my wife came home from an Al-Anon meeting all excited about what they had talked […]
January 4, 2023
Living by the Dictates of My Conscience, By Rick R. “Desperation” has been the great motivator for me with respect to the thoroughness that I have […]
October 11, 2022
I was parked in front of the mall wiping off my car. I had just come from the car wash and was waiting for my wife […]