Hi Bob S. and thanks When I got my experience I didn´t understand it and at first it was hard to believe. Too good to be true (wich many-many times and...
Good morning everyone! We're at the top of page 13 - Bill went again to Towns Hospital to be separated from alcohol for the last time. This is at the beginning...
Wow, Bob! That got me thinking a lot about a "spiritual experience" that I had, prior to hitting bottom and becoming willing to work the steps. While that...
Sorry, I got that wrong. I read your post again, Bob. I see what you mean, now. I know those experiences are more insightful and inspiring spurts of...
last year i went to visit a friend who told me there's a local (to her) AA group for doctors and lawyers cuz if they went to "regular" meetings they'd lose...
I find it amazing that Bill did the essential step process when he was just a few day sober - and it worked! But yet we hear, these days, that is is best to...
eeeek - so glad I was taught about NOW - and so teach others. ... From: Robert Stonebraker To: BBS_Open_Discussion@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006...
Hi Bob, Trish and Linda and Y´All Just yesterday my HG-meeting turned to a "reluctance-party". "easy does it" was the name of the game. I took fire and had to...
Ditto Trish, Our group feels as though the AA life doesn't really begin until one has learned HOW TO DO the AA life by first going through the "on the job...
Hi Bob, I am a victim of 'The take your time brigade' I have gained more from this site and shares like yours than I have done on my meetings circuit ....
Good Morning! We're on page 17 - Chapter 2 - "There is a Solution." (I LOVE that title!) One of the literary devices that Bill employs on this page relates to...
I dont know how many times i have heard someone say in a meeting after they have come back from a drinking episode say that the reason they got drunk was that...
Who know which of us need several doses of 'fertilizer' before the soil of our minds/spirits are ready for something to grow in it. We must never forget that...
I had a definite Titanic moment yesterday.I had words with my sister (same person I had to do 4th step on 2 weeks ago) I called back immediately to apologize...
As an attorney, I've attended the 'underground' AA meeting for attorneys here. What I heard was very depressing. They constantly talked about how different,...
SOBRIETY TEST A juggler, driving to his next performance, is stopped by the police. "What are these matches and lighter fluid doing in your car?" asks the cop....
I don't here that where I live. Perhaps we should start saying and meaning "where I live." Heck, I was at an AA meeting in an obscure town in Louisiana and...
Judy, as an attorney, you know about "percieved conflicts of interest." It is these situations that cause some people to have to use "underground meetings."...
In my 21 years in AA, I've worked with a lot of people who believe they need special interest meetings and found that those I encouraged and who actually tried...
Wow, I have a friend who is an attorney in the program and she lives in another city. She comes to our meetings for those reasons. I probably have more friends...
Greetings, all What you'll read in other AA histories is, Bill continually found new things to work on; implies to me, he didn't just do the steps once. ...
Greetings, all Actually, no, the stars don't have to go to underground meetings. At least, not in South Florida; sometimes visiting performers will show up at...
Remember that movie The Player? With Tim Robbins, Whoopie, Lyle Lovitt, and everyone else in Hollywood. AA meetings are where you go to see and be seen and do...
Chapter 2 - "There is a Solution." (I LOVE that title!) I agree with you Karen. I don't beleive there is a single more powerful, challenging, and promising...
This discussion is just as bizarre to me as it was last time around. We don't do the 'take your time' thing here. In fact, I don't recall any 'time frame'...
