December 21, 2017
I’m seven years old and every adult in my immediate environment is drinking daily and it isn’t hard for me to get a taste of beer, […]
October 2, 2017
I came into A.A. bankrupt in every department. When I started to work the steps, my first big challenge was to find a power greater than […]
July 28, 2017
In the meetings that I attend on a regular basis the topic of God comes up quite often and that’s not surprising since there is such […]
June 5, 2017
Alcoholics Anonymous has taught me many tools. One of the biggest tools is living in today. Today is all I have and I believe God is […]
May 23, 2017
Sometimes I am uncomfortable with all of the different definitions that I have heard concerning the topic of what our primary purpose is. I can sit […]
April 24, 2017
My AA life began after my first meeting, but then in a different sense it really didn’t begin till I learned the AA program of action […]
February 20, 2017
After twenty-eight years of mind-obliterating alcoholism, I finally attended my first AA meeting. Within a few weeks, I became capable of memorizing the Third Step Prayer […]
November 25, 2016
In my early days of sobriety, I was hearing a lot of words that were unfamiliar to me and I didn’t pay much attention to them […]
November 25, 2016
After barely escaping a trip to the Indiana State Penal Farm for drunken misbehavior, I quit drinking forever – I was nineteen years old. Then, when […]
August 30, 2016
Most of us were born perfect and the slate was clean. From the very first day of our lives we started to experience different emotions (for […]
July 7, 2016
I had scooted through the holiday season one long-ago January without a drink for the first time in memory since teenage years. Even though I had […]
March 29, 2016
How to brighten up a life in the state of spiritual darkness Like most of us in AA, I spent years trying to navigate my way […]