This Fabulously Messy Sober Ball
March 2015
By:
Anonymous
There's nothing like illness, surgery and family matters to remind us to embrace Step Three
first 12th Step Call
March 1962
By:
R. F.
| Farmingdale, New York
at last he was going to help a real alcoholic. . .
There’s No Place Like Home
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By:
Bob R.
| Shelburne, VT
Joining AA brought him home, at last
What's Wrong With Personalities? Plenty!
December 1983
By:
F. P.
| Spokane, Washington
Anonymity is an expression of humility and an antidote to "self-will run riot
Around AA - Item of AA Information and Experience
September 1968
By:
Chit Chat
No 'Advance Billing' Please!
Around AA - Items of AA Information and Experience
August 1967
By:
Anonymous
| Sarasota, Florida
Anniversaries--One View
Persian Gulf Countries Hold Fifth Annual AA Convention
May 2006
Three-day event examines translation concerns and service structure
Inside Job
July 2016
A Florida man returns to his old jail to help plant seeds and lift a few spirits
Sunrise After Sandy
May 2013
By:
Richard H.
| Babylon, New York
An annual AA breakfast event provides a safe harbor for a devastated New York town
1984 Is Here at Last!
April 1972
By:
Anonymous
| Tolovana Park, Oregon
And it turns out to be much more pleasant than George Orwell predicted
Leveled
September 2017
By:
Richard M.
| Dillon, Montana
In prison with 38 years sober, he hit a whole new bottom. Service was the way out
Last Chance
November 2016
He’d blown a lot of chances, but one last offer of help came his way, he grabbed it, and began trying to help other people
Tradition Four: Autonomy--not Self-will
April 2006
By:
Richard B.
| Iselin, New Jersey
From the April 1990 Grapevine
Autonomy--Not Self-will
April 1990
By:
Richard B.
| Iselin, New Jersey
Fourth Tradition - Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or AA as a whole.
Personal Responsibility
March 1977
By:
B. L.
| Manhattan, New York
Maybe we don't like too much organization, but somebody has to get things done
I Don’t go It Alone
January 2023
| Spiritual Awakenings
By:
Paul W.
| Rochester, N.Y.
Once dependent on people and alcohol, he now gives his Higher Power that job
DCM Responsibilities Come With Benefits
October 2019
| Is AA Accessible to all who need it?
By:
Peggy Rose L.
| San Diego, Calif.
General service gives her the chance to prove that meeting makers really do make it
Saved By Strangers
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By:
Dave P.
| San Diego, Calif.
AA was full of strangers—and they all helped to save his life