As in Recovery, Consistency is Key in Writing

By Elizabeth Jannuzzi

I’ve been sober for 14 and a half years. And for all those years—besides a vacation or two and an illness here or there—I’ve attended the same Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, what we in recovery call “a home group.” We’ve switched locations a few times and during COVID, we moved to Zoom. Otherwise, it’s been the same people choosing to connect Wednesdays at 8 p.m., week after week. 

Well, some of the same people. About 20 people have been there the entire time I have...