Snippets from the weird and wonderful world of conventional recovery literature and quotations from the wealth of (mostly recent) secular iterations of the 12-step process.
Bill Wilson continues to fascinate the American public. He's an intriguing character - a man of great achievement despite being plagued by challenges such as neurosis, clinical depression, hypochondria and, of course, severe alcoholism. Intriguing and fascinating history of AA's founder in his own words, albeit with the help of the AA historian, Bob k.
Most people know about the co-founders, Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, who met in 1935 and formally launched AA. But who are the other “key players” in the history of AA?
Bob k has been a sober and active member of Alcoholics Anonymous since October 28, 1991. He is the son of an alcoholic who was the son of an alcoholic. Bob qualifies for AlAlon and Adult Children of Alcoholics and has been to meetings of those two societies. He has also visited Narcotics Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous, and Food Addicts in Recovery.
From 2004-2006, Bob supplied articles on AA's "Big Book" to Toronto Intergroup's newsletter, Better Times. He has been a regular contributor to the websites AAAgnostic.org and AA Beyond Belief. Many of those essays were on the subject of AA history. In 2015, Bob published Key Players in AA History. A second, expanded edition of that volume was released in 2023 as was The Secret Diaries of Bill W., a fictional look at AA's founder. Bob has made presentations at AA history meetings and at conferences.
Coming soon is Almost Hopeless : Pre-AA Efforts to Reform America's Alcoholics.
Bob worked in sales for many years before a dramatic career change in 1990 to teaching golf. He was a respected member of the PGA of Canada for many years and had some successes, provincially and nationally, as a player. Whitby, just east of Toronto, is home.
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