April 1, 2022
On a dreary day two years ago, I was in downtown Detroit handling some very unpleasant personal business. My plans and expectations had suddenly dissolved in […]
March 3, 2022
In 1986 I was alone for a few days in a cheap hotel in Detroit. I’d been betrayed and was despondent, distrustful, and depressed. Looking through […]
March 3, 2022
When My Desperation Outweighed My Denial Alcoholism is often referred to as a disease of perception. And, oh, how I find that statement to be true! […]
March 24, 2021
I Was Already Getting Relief In my most desperate days, I was the guy standing around in the parking lot 15 minutes early, along with one […]
February 24, 2020
“Get a sponsor, get a home group, and get something to do at that home group,” was a continuing mantra at the treatment facility I attended […]
February 24, 2020
AA’s Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions describes an emotionally mature alcoholic as one who is “finally convinced that reckless romancing is not a way of life.” […]
June 4, 2019
My biggest fear, from the very start, has been that I would drink again. Upon reading about Jim and his glass of whiskey-laced milk (p. 35-37), […]
April 30, 2019
After twenty-plus years of unsuccessfully “quitting drinking forever,” I was finally taken to my first AA meeting. I was coming off a three-day drinking binge, still […]
April 30, 2019
On our way to Columbus last month to the first Ohio General Service Conference, we had the good fortune to share a seat on the train […]
February 6, 2019
Let’s face it, returning to A.A. after relapsing can be extremely uncomfortable, and I should know because I’ve been a periodic “slipper” over the past 20 […]
July 25, 2018
A Spiritual Awakening at Its Best Years before I came to Alcoholics Anonymous I was aware that there was something dreadfully wrong with me but not […]
January 25, 2018
I got sober at a treatment facility in the fall of 1984. A counselor lined me up with Don S, a local AA. He got me […]