The Rum-Soaked Razor Bill
May 1963
By:
M. D. B.
| Jackson, Michigan
Bird watching for fun, profit and sobriety
My Unmanageable Wife
April 1963
By:
R. Z.
| Phoenix, Arizona
She has too many resentments, so naturally I sip a beer or two now and then
Fellowship Is an Art
April 1962
By:
J. F. D.
| McNeil Island, Washington
and breaking out of our isolation is one of the signs that we are growing up
A Twenty-four-hour Performer
June 1961
By:
B. P.
| Chappaqua, New York
This gal discovered only professionals are paid to act
From the Vintage Years
January 1958
By:
Bill Cunningham
THIRTEEN YEARS AGO THIS MONTH. . . <lbI Like Being a "Side-Line Rooter
Closed Meeting
December 1956
Potentiation: New Top Killer?
June 1966
By:
J. Horace Strunk
The editor of Pennsylvania's Department of Health Journal reviews the evidence that combined use of alcohol and mood-changing drugs is now a--<emphasis type="underline">the</emphasis>--major public health problem
Back from the Brink
December 2013
Diagnosed with cirrhosis, he finally faced the truth about his drinking
Two-fisted Drinker
March 2013
By:
Ken L.
| Knoxville, Tennessee
After years of pounding back beers, a good soldier becomes a hopeless closet drunk
Women in AA in the 1950s
August 2011
By:
Betty H. (as told to Deborah H.)
| Mesa, Arizona
Remembering what it was like to get sober as a woman in the early days of AA in the Twin Cities
Life, Unlimited
September 2007
By:
Diana C.
| Oceanside, California
A teenager reaps rewards of sobriety
That Newcomer in the Corner
January 1984
By:
C. C.
| Aurora, Minnesota
How to carry the message to unwilling or misinformed newcomers? Here's one solution: a special beginners meeting, emphasizing AA basics and guided by the Traditions
Out of the Night and Into the Day of the First Meeting
February 1979
By:
I. C.
| Rochester, New York
Twelfth Step - Two people are blessed when a willing newcomer calls on an AA member for help
Don'ts for negative thinkers
May 1976
By:
K. N.
| Columbus, Ohio
How to make a catastrophe out of every thought and deed
Me and God
August 1974
By:
K. G.
| Potts Camp, Mississipi
Always life was up and down until she found that sharing made it balance
Humility
April 1974
By:
M. D. B.
| Toledo, Ohio
A word whose meaning causes arguments, but a quality we all aspire to when we understand it