Watching Lives Change
November 2025
| Early days of AA
By:
Bill H.
| Visalia, California
While attending a prison reentry event, a member wastes no time helping guys to sponsor each other inside
Ride of Your Life
May 2024
| How the Steps Changed My Life
By:
Brittanie C.
| Manchester, New Hampshire
Service outside of your AA group can be a wild trip!
Just ask someone who’s doing it
Just ask someone who’s doing it
A Place to Belong
September 2013
From his very first meeting to international conventions, AA was always the right place
Life Underground
January 2012
By:
Joey W.
| Palm Springs, California
His life consisted of living and drinking in a sewer until he made it back to AA
What's it worth?
August 2009
By:
WILL K.
| Westby, Wisc
Service helped him become comfortable being himself
Stumbling Block To Stepping-stone
February 2007
By:
Ed S.
| Scranton, Pennsylvania
An AA refuses despair
Forgiving God
January 2006
By:
Fran J.
| San Rafael, California
When childhood tragedy creates a barrier to faith
I Was a Perpetual Private
May 1966
By:
T. C. F.
A soldier, now in Vietnam, and no longer a private, tells how he found AA
Helping Hands
July 1957
Activities and developments outside AA in the field of alcholism...suggestions and possible contributions--information, clippings, marked publications, etc.--are invited. Please mark them "Helping Hands.
Tradition Six
June 2011
By:
Bill W.
The sixth of a new series of articles explaining the Twelve Traditions ...
Tradition Six
October 1952
By:
Bill W.
The sixth of a new series of articles explaining The Twelve Traditions. . . <lbAn AA group ought never endorse, finance or lend the AA name to any related facility or outside enterprise lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our prim
True Rewards
June 2014
By:
Kathleen H.
Her young life was spent looking for awards and approval. That ultimately led her to drinking
Ho Hum, It's Wonderful!
February 1977
By:
R. P.
| Milwaukee, Wisconsin
There is something of joy in every boring moment--if we're willing to find it
Getting It All Back
August 1976
By:
G. P.
| Elbert, Colorado
A writer on a lost weekend is twelfth-stepped by his agent
Alcoholism At Large
March 2021
| Making Amends
The costs of the COVID-19 lockdown on alcoholism and recovery
Love and Family
March 2014
By:
Anonymous
| Pennsylvania
A picture of his grandson was his spiritual awakening
Alcoholism at Large
February 2013
Editor's Note
April 2010
Life and Taxes
June 2005
By:
J.B.
| Connecticut
An AA finds the courage to face the federal government after twenty-three years