Watching Them Thaw
March 2024
| Spanish-Speaking AA Members
Marie
March 2024
| Spanish-Speaking AA Members
A grandmother shares about her chaotic childhood, her descent into alcoholism and her spiritual life today
Shower Not Required
March 2024
| Spanish-Speaking AA Members
Only one thing is asked of him to become a member, he learned, and it’s not whether he has clean socks
The Start of a Lifelong Journey
May 2019
| Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
Fresh out of jail, and options, she rode her bike to an AA meeting
From Collecting Cans to…Collecting Cans
May 2019
| Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
Redemption at the very end of a life on the streets
I Found Intimacy
May 2019
| Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
A classic suburban picture: Great exterior, miserable interior, and plenty of drinking. It was either change her life or explode
The Illusion of Control
May 2019
| Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
He’d had three chances to stop drinking—and now, on a snowy highway, he faced his fourth
My Story
May 2019
| Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
It took years of drinking and denial, but one spring day, she picked up the phone and made the call that changed her life
Hiking to Sobriety
May 2019
| Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
Trudging “the road of Happy Destiny” had a special meaning for these AA hikers
Online Sobriety
May 2019
| Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
She hated computers, but finding AA online forums gave her the courage to return to the program after a long relapse
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