PS I truly believe if you were to send in to the Grapevine magazine – exactly what you have written here – and to General Services in New York, you would receive a helpful response and help others at the same time. Kind regards.

You might want to consider joining this online group. There is one religiously oriented meeting; however, the usual chair does use a Buddhist prayer as well as the Lord’s. The other meetings are the more AA oriented and non sectarian. A Big Book study group is just getting starting and sorting itself out. When my grandson was in school, he had to…[Read more]

Hi Joseph, So sorry to hear what happened to you. Not too sure I can answer in depth, although sober since 1976? I’m truly shocked by the sad revelations I read, after joining the online group. The AA fellowship I joined in ’76 would not have behaved so. I got sober in Maryland and continue here in Maine, both, particularly Maryland, known for…[Read more]