Annual Business Meeting | 2021

We’ll meet in the same location that John M. uses for the regular Wednesday meetings. The alternate date is October 8, in the event of weather problems, too much smoke, or some other calamity.

What We Were Like

Fragments of AA History – Origin of the Twelve Steps I well remember the evening on which the Twelve Steps were written. I was lying in bed quite dejected and suffering from one of my imaginary ulcer attacks. Four chapters of the book, Alcoholics Anonymous, had been roughed out and read in meetings in Akron … Read more

New Year’s Resolution

On New Year’s Eve, an e-mail arrived from my older sister, addressed to the whole family, announcing that she would no longer communicate with me about our mother’s recent diagnosis of cancer.

My Greatest Usefulness

BY: GEORGE B. | ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA Tradition Twelve When I first found Alcoholics Anonymous, part of its appeal lay in the second word of its name. Anonymity about my own alcoholism was something that I certainly wanted. Even though my friends and co-workers had seen me drunk often enough, I didn’t want them to know … Read more