October 30, 2023
We were talking with a comparatively new member at a meeting recently who stated that he had made this trip across town to hear the speaker […]
September 1, 2023
My first AA group met in a clubroom upstairs in an old building. The paint was peeling, the windows were dirty; the chairs and tables were […]
May 4, 2023
I got sober on Zoom during COVID. The zooms of AA saved my life. I had gone to AA meetings nine years earlier for about six […]
January 30, 2023
I Found Cleveland I am what is called a “Zoom baby”. My first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, and for the next two years, was all online due […]
January 4, 2023
Bill emphasized that alcoholism was a malady of mind, emotions, and body. Bill learned this important fact from Dr. William D. Silkworth of Towns Hospital in […]
October 31, 2022
It is said that every alcoholic has his own rock bottom, his own gutter. I had watched my career, my profession and my health vanish without […]
October 31, 2022
Sometimes I Just Cringe The 1960s reminded us that, “Things they are a-changin.” This theme still echoes into today’s AA meeting room customs. Some of these […]
October 11, 2022
What Went Wrong Between Then and Now I was deeply touched by what I heard a young man at a meeting share about planning a party […]
October 11, 2022
I attended an incredible rustic retreat one time in the north of Lower Michigan, near Charlevoix. How did I find out about this small event? From […]
June 30, 2022
Step Study Meetings I consider myself to be one of the fortunate ones that came to Alcoholics Anonymous in 1969, at the age of 28, desperately […]
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 […]