Hi Carol, I appreciated your article in defense of AA. I was in those halls four times between 2003 and 2007. Truth be told, I didn’t want to work a program. Not everything is a one size fits all program. And the bigger problem was the discovery of being bipolar. I worked that in other ways. And at the time, fitness became my AA. I’m not sober today but I drink very little. I don’t have time to waste on being drunk and having hangovers. Times a wastin’! I feel good and know that I’ll never be a blackout drunk again.