About the Author
May 1966
By:
Robert K. Greenleaf
This article begins a series presentation of an especially thoughtful way to look at life-with-a-purpose. It is in terms of six decisions we can try to make and a seventh "big overarching one.
Again at the Crossroads
November 1961
By:
Bill W.
The substance of Bill's remarks at the closing session of AA's 1961 General Service Conference
AA in Norway
January 1958
A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit
May 1946
July 8, 1944
March 1946
Healing Words
April 2024
| Happy Birthday Big Book!
By:
Mary R.
| Snellville, Georgia
This nurse thought she was too smart for AA, but after reading the book she found her match
No More Free Rides
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By:
Joey R.
| Whitehorse, Yukon
The first year of sobriety a free ride? It didn’t turn out that way
Carpenter, welder, snake-handler, drunk
August 2018
By:
Pig Farmer George
| Yakima, Washington
An old-timer writes of hard work and drinking and how sharing a donut can make his day
The Gift of Sharing
December 2014
By:
Rick T.
| Falcon Heights, Minnesota
The words he spoke to his AA group that December opened their hearts forever
Then Came Susan and Dottie
August 2012
By:
Laura P.
| Elkton, Maryland
She tried to stop drinking but couldn't, until two nice ladies from AA came over
My Parking Spot God
September 2011
By:
Jennifer C.
| Chula Vista, California
She learned that she was going to need God's help for more than just the little stuff
Web Exclusive: The Homely Truth
August 2011
By:
Bob L.
| Woodstock, New York
A member sets out to tell his story without trying to make it more interesting and entertaining than it really was
One Night at the Bar
July 2011
By:
Pete L.
| Wolfville, Nova Scotia
A part-time job in a bar turned out to be the beginning of years of relapsing
Mail Call for All A. A.s at Home Or Abroad
May 1948
By:
J.O'.C.
| Chicago, Illinois
Membership Dues
Mail Call for All A.A.s at Home Or Abroad
November 1947
By:
J.A.M.
| Wollaston, Massachusetts
The 12th Step
Mail Call for All A.A.s at Home Or Abroad
August 1947
By:
Tony F.
| Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore A.A. On The Air
A Pharmacological Approach to Alcoholism
October 1968
By:
Stanely E. Gitlow, MD
The simple act of prescribing sedatives in order to relieve the anxiety symptoms of the alcoholic is the one thing that will guarantee failure almost 100 percent of the time. There are for the most part no drugs of any great value in treating alcoholism.
40 Years, 80,000 Spoons
July 2026
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Joe S.
| Loveland, Colorado
A retired teacher looks back at his life with gratitude, and high on his list is something hot and delicious