Author: John Barleycorn

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Larry’s story: I was in jail and every inmate in there was full of advice and I was not an exception. I told them the things they needed to do to straighten out their lives but it never crossed my mind . . . Read More

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Larry’s story: The day after the Jets won the Super Bowl, and beat the Baltimore Colts 16 to 7, things started happening in my life-immediately. . . Read More

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Larry’s story: For the next 13 years I was the starting linebacker for the New York Jets. We drank a lot of whiskey and beer. . . Read More

This weeks HTYH is a continuation of Larry’s story: I can remember to this moment how I felt after I took that first drink of wine. It burned a little and I shivered, got flushed all over, my toes curled up and my stomach felt like I had swallowed . . . Read More

This is the beginning of Larry’s story: I come from the land of southern hospitality. All I ever wanted from this world was to be accepted and treated like a real person. . . Read More

This week’s HTYH is the conclusion of Dave’s story: Let me tell you about my sons. I was told when I first came around AA that if I got a sponsor, worked the steps and attended AA meetings my life would straighten out, and it did, but it . . . Read More

This weeks HTYH is a continuation of Dave’s story: I started writing to my mother and sending her cards. When my counselor asked me if she responded, I said no. He said, “Then write to her again and keep writing to her every day.” . . . Read More

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Dave’s story: After I had listed my resentments my sponsor asked me to find my part in them? I didn’t like that. Take a good look at those resentments and see where you were selfish, dishonest . . . Read More

The week’s HTYH is a continuation of Dave’s story: I asked an A.A. man to be my sponsor and after we reviewed the first three steps and said the Third Step prayer together, I started on my 4th Step inventory list. . . Read More

This weeks HTYH is a continuation of Dave’s story: My counselor asked me, “David where are you right now?” “I’m sitting in a treatment center,” I answered, “Because I tried to kill myself.” . . Read More

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Dave’s story: We lived on a farm outside of Raleigh, North Carolina. We raised pigs and chickens and the feed came in large white cloth bags with strawberries, flowers, and green stems printed on them. . . . Read More

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Dave’s story: I suffered from a hundred forms of fear, fear of being less than others, fear of financial insecurity, fear of what my peers thought, fear of the police, fear of the IRS, fear of my wife’s . . . Read More

This week’s HTYH is the beginning of Dave’s story: The age of miracles has not passed, they’re happening all around us and if you like happy endings you’re in the right place. . . Read More

While practicing my alcoholism, everything was about me first. AA taught me to think about God first, others second and myself last and suddenly, happiness and serenity began to replace loneliness and fear. . . Read More

I would like to share a story with you about steps 8 & 9. When I worked Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. . . Read More

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Cindy’s story: I saw the people around me at A.A. meetings who were sober and happy and I wanted what they had and I’m glad they taught me to keep it simple. . . Read More

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Cindy’s story: I have come to believe that a benevolent God, of my understanding, kept me alive long enough to find Alcoholics Anonymous. God led me to A.A. . . Read More

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Cindy’s story: While I was standing in that frozen parking lot staring at that empty ball diamond a woman named Rose came outside, and said, “Whatever you’re thinking, don’t worry, . . . Read More

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Cindy’s story: Towards the end of my drinking I spent a lot of time at my doctor’s office. I don’t know if I qualified for being a hypochondriac, but even when I wasn’t sick–I . . . Read More

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Cindy’s story: After I started drinking alcoholically, I went down hill really fast. I was no longer that kid with great expectations, hopes and dreams who bounced back from bad nights—everything . . . Read More

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Cindy’s story: I took a drink, the drink took a drink and the drink took me and it didn’t take very long for that to happen. . . Read More

This week’s HTYH is the beginning of Cindy’s story: My sobriety date is January 6, 1986 and my home group is the Monday night 12 Steps & 12 Traditions meeting, that’s held in the basement of the Waynedale United Methodist Church . . . Read More

This weeks HTYH is a continuation of a medical doctors story: The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous states that alcoholics are mentally and bodily different than non-alcoholics. During the 1990s medical science discovered that alcoholics are deficient . . . Read More

This week’s HTYH is a continuation of a medical doctors story: In 1953, after a ten-year depression, Bill Wilson said that almost all of his emotional problems stemmed from his need for approval. . . Read More