As the Christian calendar rolled over to 2012, another AA member asked me why I thought AA was no longer growing. Like me, he remembers the 1970s and 1980s when perpetual population growth in AA was expected. AA population, which…

“Books are carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.” Henry David Thoreau

I…

12 Steps, Over 300 Disorders, and Recovery in a Mad, Mad World
How will you do your next Step 4? Do you use the AA Big Book list of resentments, fears and sex- conduct? Or will you us the…

... who claim to have found it." I wish I knew who to credit for this quote.

I remember a columnist who wrote a book called, Often Wrong, Never in Doubt. I wish I had thought of that. I…