The Fifth Step - More Ups than Downs
June 1974
By:
F. M.
| New Canaan, Connecticut
Learning to see the ridiculous in the things we are doing wrong
A Non-alcoholic's "Alcoholic Problem
July 1953
By:
O. J.
| Omak, Washington
They were delighted to help me before I had turned to drink. . .
Committee for Education on Alcoholism Historic Event, Says Dwight Anderson
October 1944
By:
Dwight Anderson
He Lived Only to Drink
December 2001
I had been preached to, analyzed, cursed, and counseled, but no one had ever said, 'I identify with what's going on with you. It happened to me and this is what I did about it.'
At Wit’s End
February 2021
| Sponsorship
Retreat From Sanity
March 1985
By:
F. P.
| Gainesville, Florida
Changes in attitude can lead us to a drink--or too close for comfort
So Changed a Life
November 1979
By:
C. F.
The author, whose story "Fear of Fear" appears in both the second and third editions of Alcoholics Anonymous, recently celebrated with her husband their thirtieth AA anniversary. - From the September 1968 Grapevine
A Disease of Opposites
March 1979
By:
F. R.
| Parsippany, New Jersey
What seemed to be the end was actually the beginning
Island Adventure
On his first vacation in sobriety, strangers in the fellowship showed him how wonderful his life is because of AA.
So Changed a Life
September 1968
By:
C. F.
| Manhattan, New York
The author's story, "Fear of Fear," appears on page 330 of the revised edition of Alcoholics Anonymous, published in 1955. <lb Big Book Stories--Updated
Minority Report on the Fourth of July
July 1966
By:
Florence T.
| Crescent, Missouri
Firecrackers give her the leaps, and then there are those endless booze sessions. . .
A.A'.s Country-wide News Circuit
June 1945
Swimming With the Current
August 2025
| Atheist & Agnostic Members
By:
John K.
| Carleton, Ontario
To him, AA is a program of action, not belief. If we’re honest, kind and living in the love, we’re going the right way
So How Did I Get Here?
May 2024
| How the Steps Changed My Life
By:
Patrick J.
| Albuquerque, New Mexico
What made him say yes to that kind AA man more than four decades ago? Ask his Higher Power