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Victim to Asshole in Four Easy Columns
Years ago, a friend showed me the difference between a change and an unveiling. It was a humorous story and ...
Cowboy Share: Stay in the Herd
It was an early morning AA meeting on the West Coast. A stranger walked in, a genuine cowboy. He was ...
Meetings Are Like Fertilizer for the Soul
At a recent meeting, a fellow shared, starting from an interesting point of departure. He had a piece of paper ...
Autonomous Sponsorship
Sponsorship works, even when the sponsor does nothing. As a sponsor, I have listened to voicemails like this. “Andy, damn, ...
Grass Isn’t Greener: Cultivating Virtue
Superficially fescues resemble grass, but the differences outweigh the similarities. Grasses make great lawns, a seamless expanse of green. In ...
Like a Flame Thrower
I watched a movie about the Marines on a Pacific Island in World War II on Monday night. In the ...
Taking time to save time
Time alone will cure many defects: With time, we eventually see the problems. But removing defects takes time if all ...
Character Replacement Therapy
A great insight at a recent AA meeting, “when I applied the Program in all my affairs, what was out ...
The Missing Self-problem
In AA we have many self-problems: In our Program there is a list of self-problems that we have to guard ...
Half the Effort
The topic of the AA meeting was the continuous work and effort required for our AA Program. ...
Making Amends Pays a Karmic Debt
The question over coffee with a group of AAs was: Why are amends so important in the AA Program? ...
First and Second Order Effects
In the Rooms of AA, we often hear, “I was at the top of my amends list,” or “first we ...
My Third Book is Out!
My third book, Closing Arguments for Twelve-Stepping Lawyers, is available. International Lawyers in A.A. has a weekly online meeting which ...
On books and covers
Years ago, on a business trip in another city, I attended a downtown morning AA meeting. I walked by a ...
Prairies to Mountains
The topic was spiritual growth; an AA brother shared, “years ago, I was driving across the prairies to the west ...
Changing in a flash
Reversing course can take much time and much space, or no time and no space. Watching a big semi-trailer drive ...
