Author Archives: wpadmin

  March 31, 2024 “What I’ve had to figure out is that I can’t figure anything out.”  “Winners and Whiners,” Port Townsend, Washington, October 1994, Emotional Sobriety: The Next… Read More »

  March 30, 2024 “In the life of each AA member, there still lurks a tyrant. His name is alcohol.” AA Co-Founder, Bill W., July 1946, “The Individual in Relation… Read More »

  March 29, 2024 “Only a gift given in love and gratitude is blessed to the giver and precious to the receiver.” Orchard Lake, Mich., December 1966, From: “Breaking Through… Read More »

  March 28, 2024 “It is out of our discussions, our differences of opinion, our daily experiences, and our general consent that the true answers must finally come.” AA Co-Founder,… Read More »

  March 27, 2024 “Personal glorification, overweening pride, consuming ambition, exhibitionism, intolerant smugness, money or power madness, refusal to admit mistakes and learn from them, self-satisfaction, lazy complacency – these… Read More »

  March 26, 2024 “I was so busy juggling the regrets of the past with the expectations of tomorrow I had no time for living in the present.”  Atlanta, Ga.,… Read More »

  March 25, 2024 “I have discovered a new way to learn – by shutting my mouth and listening … It’s not so much what I’m doing as what I’m… Read More »

  March 24, 2024 “Spiritual growth and experiences are not limited to orthodox believers in a deity, any more than the disease of alcoholism is limited to skid-row bums.”  Casper,… Read More »

  March 23, 2024 “During his first AA years every AA has had plenty of the urge to revolt against authority. I know I did, and can’t claim to be… Read More »

  March 22, 2024 “There are winners and whiners, and sometimes I seem to embody both. I am, as my friends remind me, a human being.” Port Townsend, Wash., October… Read More »