Santa Is An Alcoholic SANTA CLAUS is an alcoholic. That stark pronouncement may make strong men blanch and little children whimper, but every fact at our command points to its truth. Consider the evidence.
Item: This oddly behaved old man has a red nose and a flushed face, and prances around [...]
Citizenship Test 1. What are the colors of our flag?
2. How many stars are there in our flag?
3. What color are the stars on our flag?
4. What do the stars on the flag mean?
5. How many stripes are there in the flag?
6. What color are the stripes?
7. What do the stripes on the flag mean?
8. How many [...]
Maintaining Our Recovery There are many roads to recovery but by far the one most practiced is the 12 step approach. The Twelve Steps were written by Bill Wilson and became the basis of the book Alcoholics Anonymous which has become known as “The Big Book”. The twelve steps outline a program of action which takes its practitioners [...]
New Year 2010: New Recovery Challenges Happy New Year! The new millennium is now ten years old and the decade really flew by. The next decade looks promising in spite of the generalized economic woes. It seems as if we have dodged a collective bullet and as the old blues song says “been down so long it looks like up [...]
Florida’s West Coast Is a Pleasant Change
After two solid months of work, including moving home and business in the month of February and putting out a two month publication in one month in March, I finally caught a break for a few days while my friends at the Boca News were printing the paper. Two of my old friends from New [...]
Alive and Well At Seventy
I was out to dinner the other night with a friend I have sponsored for many years and he said, “Why don’t you write an article about how the program has changed over the last twenty-five years?” I knew right away what he meant. Recently I have heard many “oldtimers” complain about the “watering down” [...]
Leave The Woodpile a Little Higher
I was recently privileged to be asked to be part of a new group that was being formed. It could not have come at a better time for I had become somewhat burned out with recent events at my old home group and longed for the old fashioned small church basement home group of my [...]
The Triumphant Arch
Being asked to speak on the Big Book at my home group I had the opportunity to decide on which was my favorite selection from the book. I know that this changes probably daily but the selection I chose was on pages 60-63 on the subject of Step Three. I know that I have personally [...]
Adolescents Anonymous Sometimes I think that “AA” should stand for Adolescents Anonymous. With all the talk about the “inner child” these days I like to think of my “inner alcoholic”. There is no doubt that my inner alcoholic is an adolescent. Think about it. Aren’t the symptoms of alcoholism the same as the symptoms of adolescence?
Start with [...]
Not Group Therapy
It recently occurred to me that many newcomers in our program seem to feel that AA is just another group therapy session. With so many people coming into the program straight from treatment where group therapy is a staple of the therapist tool box, most newcomers are not prepared or taught to understand the difference [...]
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