Contact information:
Address: 7985 Santa Monica Blvd. #109-106, West Hollywood, CA 90046
Telephone: 310 399-6866, M-F, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Pacific time

Ritch Colbert: ritch@sobrietycalendar.com
Jay Wheeler: jay@sobrietycalendar.com
Christopher Harrity: christopher@sobrietycalendar.com

The 2008 calendar includes several new features that will be sure to add to your enjoyment of this unique annual publication. “Sponsor Speak,” “Acronyms Anonymous,” and more AA tatoos are all new to this year’s calendar, along with very rare archival material featured throughout the calendar.

Thanks to the folks who helped us this year, Ernest P. and his cocktail napkin art, Trudy R. for her great proofing skills, and to the tattooed wonders of A.A

The Sobriety Calendar was created in 1990 by Charlie Bishop, AA archivist, author, publisher, and founder of The Bishop of Books. Born Nov. 10, 1938, Charlie graduated Wheeling Jesuit University in 1960 with an A.B. in English. He taught high school English for one year in Wheeling, WV, and 3 years in Maryland. After that, he wrote for the Associated Press in Bluefield, WV, and then reported for The Wheeling News-Register for about six years, becoming city editor.

Charlie began collecting books on alcoholism in 1976 and over the years amassed the largest alcoholism collection in private hands in the U.S. until selling it to Brown University's Center of Alcohol Studies in 1995. He served as archivist for West Virginia AA for 6 years, and has established a national reputation as an antiquarian bookseller, appraiser specializing in the literature of alcoholism, and publisher of 11 books on Alcoholics Anonymous and alcoholism.

In 2000, Keith Morris joined Charlie in the research, artwork, and graphics design of the Sobriety Calendar. He became immediately obsessed with AA history and the information that the calendar provided. Keith quickly became a collector of books, magazines, and printed materials about Alcoholics Anonymous and alcoholism for his own research library, due to a newfound love of the fascinating subject of AA, and time spent with Charlie and the Sobriety Calendar. Keith, who in addition to being the editor of the Sobriety Calendar, is currently working towards an undergraduate degree in the IT field, and is working on a reference book on AA and alcoholism.

In 2002 Charlie sold the Sobriety Calendar to Richard Colbert after deciding to devote more of his time to his 26 year interest in AA archives and to continue publishing, lecturing and consulting as well as appraising in the field of alcoholism literature.

Richard Colbert is an entrepreneur based in Los Angeles who, over the years, has purchased more than 1000 calendars to share with friends in the Program, friendships developed during more than 25 years of his sobriety. Purchasing the Calendar from Charlie was more than a business opportunity for Richard. Like Charlie and Keith, he is a good friend of the AA fellowship and enjoys carrying the message through a wonderful tradition —The Sobriety Calendar.