Dear Essay readers:

Welcome back to Essay — or, if this is your first time to read the Essay, welcome to your SA meeting in print online. We hope you will subscribe to Essay to benefit from our meeting in print every quarter.

In this issue we introduce Misery Covery and expanded non-English articles and more humor, for we are not a glum lot. We also continue to feature articles from our Meditations and from Member Stories. We also include three articles that invite you to respond to the writers.

Steadily we are using the SA website (sa.org/essay/) for longer and recent articles. Please do check them out from time to time.

Our March 2017 theme is SA Outreach and Growth. Have any experience, strength and hope for us in that area? Let us hear from you!