I’ve probably lost half of you already with this post’s title. Folks are rarely neutral when it comes to Harry Potter. It is usually a...

Step Six - Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. I was a pretty noncommittal member of A.A. for almost 2...

"Professor Peter Cohen writes that we should stop using the word "addiction" all together and shift to a new word: "bonding." Human...

I went to my first A.A. meeting about a year before I put the bottle down for good. I’d had a blackout the previous night and I was...

"Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand." - Mark Twain

A few months before my wedding and 3 years before I got sober, my in-laws took my future husband and me on what should have been a...

"There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it." Roger Federer. I have gone to thousands of A.A. meetings over my 22 years in the...

I lived in Manhattan for decades and when I moved out to the suburbs the shock was intense. I love New York City with all its glorious...

In early recovery I kept hearing the phrase "God Shot". The way it was explained to me was that something happens...and in a split second...

“Only here's what I really, really want someone to explain to me. What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted?...

I wake up stark raving mad. The crazy and amazingly energetic committee in my head gets up about 20 minutes before I do and once it has...

I visualize addiction like a spider web. Sticky and alluring. For me, drugs and alcohol sit squarely in the center. Picture a spider web...

Step 11: “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God.” Let's start with the hard part. "Sought...

I met Alan at one of my first A.A. meetings in New York City. Alan is an actor but was surviving by waiting tables and driving a NYC cab....

Desperation brought me into A.A., but it was mixed with a healthy dose of cynicism. I was looking for flaws, for ways to NOT become a...

"Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in" - Leonard...

A stumbling block, or more accurately a gigantic Mount Everest-sized obstacle for many people entering the program of Alcoholics...

Often in AA meetings we hear the refrain “You just don't understand”. "You just don't understand my life, my job, my partner, my kids, my...

My good friend Mike loves Mixed Martial Arts. I hate violence, it scares me, but several times I have reluctantly joined him to watch...

When I first slithered into the rooms of AA the crusty old-timers used to tell me to take the cotton out of my ears and stuff it into my...