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| 1. | Ounces of Prevention. . . . . . . Keep an indexed notebook of member's names with you: for phoning and writing A.A.s. Call a member when you have jitters, depression, discouragement, resentments. . .When you can't sleep, write a letter to an A.A. in Service or on the road and out of touch. Put a habit-forming reminder in your shaving or make-up kit. This starts the day with a definite statement that you won't take a drink. Make a hospital call. When you feel low, get to the next meeting, anywhere in the area; or go to one of the A.A. luncheons. Never let yourself get hungry. For that five o'clock time try a light snack, a frosted chocolate. See our Time on Your Hands Column. . ... | June 1944 | |
| 2. | Points of View (by An anonymous wife) Dear Grapevine: Those who think a wife's troubles are over when her husband joins A.A., just don't know! As an alcoholic's wife, I'd like to tell you. My husband, for instance, still stays out until all hours. True, he's holding another alcoholic's head instead of a bottle--but he still neglects his family even though the bills are paid on the first of the month. He still has his ups and downs and fits of depression, even though they don't last as long and he now recognizes them for what they are worth. In short, our life together didn't automatically smooth out into a placid lily pond just because he sobered up. Not all at once. Where once our troubles ... | July 1944 | |
| 3. | Time on Your Hands The heated term is among us and the "ole swimmin' hole" sends forth its appeal, so gather your trunks or midriff model and hie yourself to one of the many Jersey or Long Island beaches for a dose of vitamin-giving sunshine, or take a train to Rye and PLAYLAND. This beach is particularly recommended, especially on week days. If you can snatch only an hour or two or want some lessons, try the ST. GEORGE POOL, or the DALTON SWIMMING SCHOOL, 19 West 44th Street. . . . Would you rather sit at home with your feet on a cake of ice and a fan blowing cool zephyrs over your fevered brow? Pick a cool day, go to the ... | July 1944 | |
| 4. | Editorial: (by D. S.) Funny thing after all these years. . .but it seems I haven't known too much about A.A. and what it really meant until just lately. And I suppose I shall go on as long as I live, and remain in A.A., feeling from week to week, month to month, and maybe even year to year, that I am only just beginning to have some-appreciation of what it all means, how big it is. | August 1944 | |
| 5. | Do You Know: (by R. K. F.) How often have you heard it said, "I was too busy to make the meeting last night," or, "I was so darn tired I just couldn't get there"? Of course, either one of these two may hold true, but too often they are indications of the beginning of a return to the old line of thinking. For this reason, then, when you are "too busy" or "too tired," stop and ask yourself--"Is this true or am I rationalizing?" Be honest. If you are not it may not be long before you have nothing to be "too busy" about. Only by constant association with A.A.s and their problems do we re-learn those principles of living that get us sober and ... | October 1944 | |
| 6. | Editorial: (by Earl T.) The A.A. program itself is simple. Why do too many of us try to read complexities and mysteries into the 12 steps? | October 1944 | |
| 7. | How It Feels to Make One's First Beginnings in A. A. (by Joe) Harry I. of the New York A.A. is up here at the farm. Seeing he is here for two days, I am pumping him for all I can get out of him on A.A. He has opened my eyes to a lot I never knew. You would be surprised how I have gotten over resentments of family and life in general. I now look at their side of a resentment instead of mine. In doing so it lifts a great load off my chest and makes me see life more clearly. This being sorry for oneself is one of the ways to sap up your normal outlook. To think straight today means that tomorrow with all the other tomorrows ... | November 1944 | |
| 8. | Bill's Wife Remembers When He and She and the First A. A.s Were Very Young (by Bill W.'s wife, Lois Wilson) As the wife of an early A.A., some of our experiences and my reactions to my husband's changed life may be interesting to other wives. Bill was an alcoholic, I believe, from the first drink he ever took, just a few months before our marriage. From then on, for seventeen years, I did everything I could think of to keep him away from liquor. | December 1944 | |
| 9. | The Children Say What A.A. Means to Them (by Lois B.'s 22-year-old daughter, Del) Ever since I can remember there has been a lot of drinking around me. Looking back on it, I can see that most of the people who did that drinking were alcoholics. I can't say that it bothered me much until I was older and began to notice what was happening to the people I loved. They were changing under my very eyes. This change was probably gradual, but to me it seemed to come all of a sudden and I can remember hating what alcohol did to people and even hating what alcohol did to people and even hating the sight of it. It was a joyful day when I found Mummy wasn't drinking. That summer was one ... | December 1944 | |
| 10. | Mail Call for All A.A.s in the Armed Forces We have noticed from the correspondence of A.A.s in Service that, without group contacts over long periods of time, these men and women frequently appear to be following the A.A. program, especially the spiritual side, more closely than many of the rest of us who live in almost daily association with our fellow members. In this connection, we quote, by courtesy of the Toledo group, several paragraphs of a letter from one of its Service men with an F.P.O. address: | January 1945 | |
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