Back to where I belong
September 2009
By:
RAY L.
| Sarnia, Ontario
After 20 years of sobriety, a retiree starts to drink in secret
Pleasures of Reading
October 1948
The Life of An Alcoholic<lb<emphasis type="italic">By An Alcoholic</emphasis><lbNorthern California Publishers, 1948. $2.50
No Borders
October 2025
| AA & Technology
By:
D.C.
| Apple Valley, California
A Bridging the Gap committee in an all-online district pioneers new ways to connect newcomers as soon as they leave treatment
It’s About Love
August 2021
| Seniors in AA
By:
Maryellen O.
| San Rafael, Calif.
Although there’s a pandemic and she’s dealing with serious issues, she’s sober, useful and drinking in the kindness
Grateful to Help
July 2021
| The Annual Prison Issue
By:
John K.
| Sanford, N.C.
Committed to writing guys in prison, a volunteer begins to help them see what AA is like outside
Where my life began
September 2019
| Young & Sober
By:
Chad P.
| Mt. Vernon, Indiana
Young and terrified, he left his rough, drunken world and walked through a door that said “Welcome Home”
Anniversaries
February 2018
| Title Goes Here
By:
Alan S.
| Rio Rancho, N.M.
Celebrating his anniversary may make him uncomfortable, but his entire life is a celebration of the beauty of sobriety found through the AA Fellowship
1000 Steps
October 2014
By:
Dale W.
| Vancouver, British Columbia
His chance at a better life was much closer than he thought, and so was the love
God Wasn't Big Enough
October 2011
By:
G.E.
| Milpitas, California
So she borrowed her sponsor's Higher Power, which was entirely sufficient
Warrior-Prince-Alcoholic
March 2011
By:
Shawn B.
| Stamford, Connecticut
The Third Tradition meant he was welcomed, not out of place
New Frontiers: Highlights Of AAWS' Year Abroad
September 2003
From a presentation by GSO staff member Bill A. to the 2003 General Service Conference in New York City.
Short Takes
July 1951
I’m him
March 2018
By:
Anton R.
| Edmonton, Alberta
Today at the homeless shelter, he reached out to a man he never met but knew all too well
You've got to give to get
June 2009
By:
JOHN L.
| Seabrook, Texas
A loner on the fringes of AA finds the courage to seek out a sponsor
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.'
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
Alateens Smartened up This AA
December 1967
By:
Ed C.
| Westbury, New York
Searching questions from teenagers drove their AA sponsor to live the program. . .