A Place I Call Home
December 2024
| Remote Communities and Sober Holidays
By:
Sandra H.
| Hooper Bay, Alaska
Staying sober in her tiny Alaska village was tough, until one day the remote community folks’ plane came to town
Enter My Lonely Heart
January 2024
| Emotional Sobriety
By:
Maggie H.
| Rockaway Beach, New York
Her first prayers were uttered in despair and desperation, but the best one of all was said sober
Soft landing
June 2019
| Letting Go of Resentments
By:
Nanci V.
| Dallas, Texas
A one-chip wonder says she’s grateful she made it here and that her sweet sober life makes her stay
Write Your Sobriety Date in Pencil
January 2019
| Stories for Day Counters!
By:
Lisa B.
Changing her sobriety date after a relapse, a woman discovers genuine humility
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.
A New Canoe
March 1964
By:
T. C.
| Port Arthur, Ontario
Sobriety is a wobbly contraption, until you learn how to steer it
From AA's Scrapbooks--1943 (Con't.)
February 1958
OLD TOPERS ASK LADIES TO JOIN THEM ON WAGON ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS AIDS ERRING SISTERS
About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research, and Treatment
December 1984
By:
The Alcoholism Report
Care for Ex-Military
Meetings, Meetings, Meetings
October 1981
About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research and Treatment
March 1981
By:
Robin J. Milstead-O'Keeffe, M.S.W.
Two Plans for Women Alcoholics
Dear Editors:
June 1968
By:
R. T.
| Manhattan, New York
Many members. . .might. . .rush through the earlier Steps. . .bypassing the deeply private, personal work of the first three. . .
Striving to Fail
March 1977
By:
W. M.
| North Manchester
Have you ever tried to wrest defeat from the jaws of victory?