Accepting alcoholism as a disease is hard for most of us because we cannot associate it with germs or viruses as in "respectable" diseases. A.S.A.P. Always Say...
Four clergypersons met at a conference on addictions, and shared. The first minister confessed, "I drink too much, and some days I can't wait for the service...
I've just recovered from a cold but I'm sorry to say it has left me with a bad chesty cough. This is getting to be a frequent occurence, not that I get colds,...
... meetings was not AA there are many people in AA that really try to help and most do to some degree thats whu its importaint if we are metally caqpable of...
Great Stuff Lenny, I am living proof that you can go to a ton of meetings and still experience untreated alcoholism....I'm fortunate to have the same sobriety...
The teacher gave her fifth-grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day the kids came back and...
I thought about Tim and Elena today. At a meeting a newcomer was totally baffled by his repeated failures to stay sober, even going to meetings. I met Tim when...
A man and his wife are dining at a table in a plush restaurant, and the husband keeps staring at a drunken lady swigging her gin as she sits alone at a nearby...
Are There any AA tele-conference meetings out there? (I've been advised by one of the EG moderators that Yahoo! message delivery has been pretty erratic...
... advise and ideas than wrong stuff at meetings....even if the things you sometimes hear at AA meetings are not 12 step and big book based...most of us...
... dont care if their drunk or sobor...if they call me drunk or make dates they dont keep...(I would hate the burnt car seat though,so no smoking in my...
... the amount of people going to meetings has dwindeled (remember in the early 80,s AA was Holiwood hip.....)...but I respectfully disagree about the state of...
A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable an...
Two Army buddies, returning from war, had a final drink in a tavern and vowed they would meet there again in ten years. The decade passed, and one of them...
Lenny: Thanks for sharing. IMHO, Next to sponsoring or taking newcomers out to coffee for "the meeting after the meeting", starting a new meeting is one of the...
Two drunks wandered into a zoo. As they staggered past the lion's cage, the king of beasts let out a terrible roar. The first drunk said, "C'mon, let's get...
Cool Note: forwarded message attached. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam...
One Friday morning an alcoholic sadly remarked to one of his co- workers how he hated to see Friday roll around each week. When asked what he disliked about...
A subway was being dug. A drunk stopped beside the excavation and called down to the man at the bottom of the pit. "Shay, whatcha doin' down there?" "Building...
A fellow walks up to the shooting gallery at the county fair. He's obviously inebriated, but the guns haven't much range, and he's insistent, so the proprietor...
Alcoholics Anonymous 11:00pm EDT Saturday Late Nite Conference Telephone Meeting My name is TG (Tony-Guy P.), and I hope to be celebrating 27 years (clean and...