Let's Hear It for Sponsorship!
November 1987
By:
K. A.
Discuss it at meetings; talk about it with each other. Are we forgetting this vital element of our AA lives? - From the September 1975 Grapevine
We Feel the Same Pain
January 1984
By:
M. H.
| Lockport, New York
No one is too young to be an alcoholic--or to get sober
About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research and Treatment
March 1982
By:
Allan Luks
There's Always a Catch
Let's Hear It for Sponsorship!
September 1975
By:
K. A.
| Topeka, Kansas
Discuss it at meetings, talk about it with each other--it's a vital element of AA
Birthday Party Syndrome
February 2018
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By:
Ellyn S.
| Miami, Fla.
It was a glamorous party, among beautiful people—but what happened next stayed with her until she chose recovery and changed her life
Under her nose
October 2017
By:
Dawn S.
| Philadelphia, Pa.
I got sober when I was 24, and I often state that you don’t stop drinking when you’re 24 unless it was really bad.
Oh Lord!
December 2016
By:
Bill K.
| Santa Rosa, California
When it comes to saying the Lord’s Prayer, one member offers his own helpful interpretation
The light of the stars
October 2016
Standing there waiting for his ride to work, a beginner looks up at the dawn sky—and discovers in the morning stars a gift of light, awareness, and self-knowledge.
Reflections On The Daily Reflections
September 2016
Are the Steps really “suggestions?” One brave AA takes a careful stroll through the minefield of “whose program is this, anyway?”
No Experts Required
May 2016
Getting to Forgiveness
March 2016
Before she got sober, she wasn't always the mother she wanted to be
6 Magic Years
December 2015
A Different Shade
March 2015
By:
Melissa R.
| Houston, Texas
Once her sponsor showed her how to put down the broad brush, things brightened up
Sober in Kokomo
November 2014
By:
Russ P.
| Kokomo, Indiana
A relapse during his retirement in Florida brought him home
On a Wing and Prayer
February 2014
By:
Russ S.
| Manitowac, Wisconsin
Seeing a trapped bird freed reminded him of his own journey into sobriety
Amber Light
January 2014
By:
Aaron H.
| San Francisco, California
With no TV, no radio, and no cell phone, he turned the power on