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| 1. | Lo-hoc-la (by L. H.) California -- See author's letter in "Carrying the Message," page 37 THE WORDS drifted from the direction of the bar: "There's these aliens from another galaxy, see?" | January 1969 | |
| 2. | Switch to Another Channel (by F. J. T.) Missouri -- HE SAID, "I never t'ink about t'ose t'ings!" He was a Norwegian sea captain, a World War II veteran, and a survivor of twenty-one days at sea in an open lifeboat. Also, he was not an alcoholic and enjoyed his aquavit like any normal, robust Norwegian. But his philosophy of life intrigued me. | May 1971 | |
| 3. | PO Box 1980 (by Storm K.) California -- The Living Cyber committee is a group of AA members from many of the various electronic support groups devoted to recovery from alcoholism who communicate with each other through an Internet e-mail list. Many of these members are making plans to attend the International Convention in San Diego this summer, where they hope to finally meet face to face with people they have already gotten to know so very well in cyber-space. | February 1995 | |
| 4. | And the Balloons Went Up "Wherever I looked, there we were," wrote Richard from Colorado, and Geff from Ohio marveled: "So many once-broken people all patched up by AA, and having a good time together." Those reflections were typical among the throngs of sober alcoholics who attended AA's birthday bash in San Diego, California, the weekend of June 29 to July 3, 1995. It was the largest AA Anniversary Convention ever held (more than 56,000 people registered), and the largest convention of any kind that San Diego had ever hosted. | October 1995 | |
| 5. | From Cyber to Sober (by Joyce C.) Flordia -- I was one of those who was going to read and write themselves sober; I even had a fancy computer to help do the job. It would be easy since I wasn't really an alcoholic. I didn't drink from brown paper bags nor did I fall down a lot. Okay, I did lose my balance once or twice, and I sort of hid my flask in one of those card-shop flowery bags. Nothing serious enough, though, to actually go to those AA meetings. | November 1995 | |
| 6. | No Secondhand Gods (by Anonymous) Kentucky -- I came to Alcoholics Anonymous beaten down by gin and depression, barely clinging to a thin and unhappy belief in God and trying desperately to talk myself back into my childhood faith. It wasn't working. | February 1996 | |
| 7. | A Near Fatality on the Information Superhighway (by Larry T.) California -- A year ago I was sober but an emotional wreck. I was going through a phase in my sobriety in which I found myself depressed and unwilling to reach out to my fellows in Alcoholics Anonymous. This emotional state eventually led to my relapsing. The first beer that I drank almost led to my death. | March 1996 | |
| 8. | GV: Is there a danger that some people will replace F2F meetings with online ones? The following "roundtable discussion" was conducted entirely in cyberspace, via e-mail. Several dozen people responded to a list of questions the Grapevine prepared and disseminated to online AAs. There have been so many responses, we can't use the material that every participant sent us; instead, we've selected a cross-section of answers to give our readers an idea of what online AA is like. AA members whose responses were selected include Alan L., Eureka Springs, Arkansas; A.L.S., Greenville, South Carolina; Chris E., South Pole, Antartica; Chris W-H. and Ken H., Almaty, Kazakstan (former USSR); Chuck B., San Antonio, Texas; Fran H., Rolling Prairie, Indiana; Jim Y., Chelan, Washington; Ken S., Marietta, Georgia; Lorey H., New York, New York; Marge C., ... | May 1996 | |
| 9. | How do cyber meetings act like F2F AA meetings? AA members have always carried the Fellowship's message of hope with them wherever they went, whether to a neighboring town or around the world. Some AAs are now making their way in a new kind of geography: it's called cyberspace, and it exists in the electronic universe of computers talking to each other. | May 1996 | |
| 10. | Your Move - Responses from Readers on the Topic of "Online AA" from the May 1996 Grapevine (by Kathie C.) California -- I found your online article to be both informative and interesting. I'm currently not online, though perhaps in the future I'll have that opportunity. Do I feel excluded? Only in the sense that I do in not being able to attend a meeting in Akron, Ohio because I can't afford to travel that far; or in the sense that I can't attend a men's stag meeting because I'm a woman. As long as I have AA available to me where the only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking and there are no dues or fees to pay, I'll be eternally grateful. | December 1996 | |
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