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Walking Out Might be the Best Thing
I was young in the Program. My sponsor had arranged to meet a newcomer at our regular AA. I was ...
Program Puzzle
My wife loves getting flowers. A cluster of cut flowers is like a magician’s wand. She could be in a ...
AA is not a spectator sport
A great share at a meeting – “Drinking is not a spectator sport, and neither is AA.” I cannot enjoy ...
Look where you want to go
I am not interested in sky diving. But a fellow I know in the Program is; and he taught me ...
Tale of Two Quotes
“God will never give us more than we can handle.” I have learned that this is not true. The world ...
Causes and conditions
With Step 4 we “get down to causes and conditions.” At a recent meeting, this topic came up and we ...
Plant your pole and fly
At a recent meeting, I saw a T‑shirt. It was a simple T‑shirt with a profound message. On the T‑shirt ...
The Program is a Scientific Way of Life
One of the principles of the Steps is ‘repeated rigorous and demanding investigation and experimentation’ with life. We rigorously examine ...
Normal is a setting
One of the shares at the Welcome Group meeting was, “Normal is a setting on the dryer, not a way ...
Membership is not free
There are no free memberships in AA. The MasterCard commercials of past years had a series of items with a ...
From Chaos to Control
My first words in the Program were, “My name is Andy…and I am here.” An old timer asked, “So why ...
From Fear to Fun
We are very clear in our 12 Step work with newcomers: “continue to drink and the choices are slow death, ...