The reason: IT'S NOT ANONYMOUS!!!! Wow. There are still a handful of unindoctrinated people left on earth, it seems. The people on Zoom were ok with it, it seemed and they are not getting rid of their Zoom meetings, but thus far they are not connecting their Zoom meeting with their Face-to-Face meeting. Of course, … Continue reading The Group Voted NOT To Go Hybrid!!!

Last week, I stumbled upon a meeting that is really good! It's a bunch of old timer guys who understand the principles of AA. It meets at 10am every day at this one Group here in my city. The Group itself has 7 meetings a day and of course, as they do, they become almost … Continue reading A Sigil For AA

Because THEY CAN. You know that in the previous conferences, GSO used slight of hand to pass a directive to change the Service Manual, and insodoing they changed the thing that said that to change the big book they would need the consent of 3/4 of the world wide fellowship, to the world wide fellowship … Continue reading Why Should GSO Change The Big Book?

We have clubs here in my city where you are screamed at continuously if you don't wear a mask, sit 6 feet apart and no more than 10 people are allowed in a room. This is NOT AA - mostly only clubs have survived this skamdemic - most of the groups which were relying on … Continue reading AA Comes Of Age…p.281 Prophetic Words

I am an alcoholic and my partner is an alcoholic. His program is totally different than mine. Sometimes it is just a shit show between us. "[Principle] You and your husband will find that you can dispose of serious problems easier than you can the trivial ones. [Principle] Next time you and he have a … Continue reading p. 118

Stone Soup in 2021 ... I can't eat the soup because it has gluten! I can't eat the soup because it has meat! I can't eat the soup because it has sugar - We would rather starve to death then come together and find our COMMON WELFARE. A friend invited me to a Book Study … Continue reading Stone Soup…

Here's what the group I have been going to does on Thanksgiving and Christmas. They take booze down to the homeless drunks in the morning. My sponsor explained this to me - the AAer's give the bums an "opener". They would get it themselves and they will find a way to drink, but for us … Continue reading The Bum Run

I got a call from Central Office the other day and I called the gal, I will call Anna... long story short Anna called AA so that we could explain to her grandma why she should buy Anna's booze. Anna had just left everything and moved to our city and in with Grandma to quit … Continue reading The Latest 12-Step Call