Story Bank

What Michael Vick Has Taught Me About Forgiveness

January 8, 2011

By Scott Cole I am an avid phan of the Philadelphia Eagles. I have loved them since I was 10 years old. I have watched them from the years of Randall Cunningham, Reggie White, and Buddy Ryan to Andy Reid, Donovan McNabb, and Brian Dawkins. Then last year, something weird happened. The Eagles had signed [...]

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Thoughts on Transition

December 3, 2010

With Graduation a Few Weeks Away By Jake H. Imagine the spectrum of light; from white to black and all the colors in between. Now apply the same concept of a light spectrum to emotions; from joy to despair. It is two weeks from graduation and I feel an emotion which is like every single [...]

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Terry’s Third Step Story

September 23, 2010

Sometimes I have a difficult time remembering past events.  It’s not the event itself that is the difficulty, but how I thought or felt about a particular event.  For instance, my wife and I have very different memories of the chronological order of our courtship and subsequent marriage.  They are similar enough to make the [...]

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What Life is Really About

August 23, 2010

Once again, I was running from my house, unwilling to accept that the decisions I made came with consequences.  I was running to get as wasted as possible until either oblivion came or the substances ran out.  If they ran out before I was satisfied, which rarely happened, I wouldn’t hesitate to scour the neighborhood [...]

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Finding Support

August 18, 2010

By Jake H. In the eyes of the Family Foundation School home visits are for the purpose of getting into AA in your hometown, making amends, and to give a student a chance to show their parents that they have made real progress at the school. My reasons for going home include the ones suggested [...]

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Inside an Alumni Transition

August 12, 2010

By L. V. In any type of social dynamic the underlying, sometimes even unconscious aspect of relationships, is control. We all want to control people in the way it best benefits us. As humans, we are selfish creatures. That is the root of our disease as the AA Big Book so simply points out. But [...]

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Reasons I Got High

August 6, 2010

By J. H. When I think back on the reasons I got high, I come to surprising revelations. The reasons are various and all have different settings accordingly. Sure I got high for social aspects, trying to fit in with a certain crowd. I got high to mask feelings and hide from reality. I even [...]

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When God Put That Log in Front of Me

July 2, 2010

By Scott Cole It’s break time at the Family School. The families had a scheduled picnic at Chenango Valley State Park and the Boy Scouts were the early to help out. Their job was to set up the barbecue grills and equipment for the students coming in to enjoy. Part of the equipment that needed [...]

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