I went to my first A.A. meeting about a year before I put the bottle down for good. I’d had a blackout the previous night and I was...

"Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand." - Mark Twain

A few months before my wedding and 3 years before I got sober, my in-laws took my future husband and me on what should have been a...

"There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it." Roger Federer. I have gone to thousands of A.A. meetings over my 22 years in the...

I lived in Manhattan for decades and when I moved out to the suburbs the shock was intense. I love New York City with all its glorious...

In early recovery I kept hearing the phrase "God Shot". The way it was explained to me was that something happens...and in a split second...