Finding My Place
March 2025
| Sober and Out
By:
P.K.
| Kansas City, Missouri
With help from a friend, a lesbian in Missouri makes it to AA and to a group she calls home
Crayons, cookies & kisses
November 2019
| Grapevine Classics
By:
D.B.
| Carlsbad, California
With Steps, coffee and baskets of toys, some California mothers stay sober together
Dancing with Mom
January 2016
Acting as though she loved the mother she couldn’t stand changed both lives forever
Coming To and Waking Up
June 2011
By:
Danny
| Longview, Washington
Coming to amidst a shattered whiskey bottle on the bathroom floor on his 31st birthday was the beginning of the end
Crayons, Cookies, and Kisses
September 1987
By:
D. B.
| Carlsbad, California
A meeting for mothers, and others
Shore Leave
March 1966
By:
C. C.
| Santa Cruz, California
An ex-sailor calculates the cost of twenty-five years of drinking - What price AA membership?
Editorial
February 1953
Edinburgh Love
July 2020
| AA Around The World
By:
Paul M.
| Galveston, Texas
A dream trip through the U.K. took a tragic turn, but the local AAs knew how to take care of their own
Condemned to Live an Underground Life
July 1976
By:
S. B.
| San Francisco, California
Rejected as an untrustworthy drunk, he was
28 hours straight
December 2018
| Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities
By:
Derek R.
| Ottawa, Ontario
There’s nothing like a good alkathon to keep him sane, sober and useful during the holidays
Who Took My Wallet?
October 2015
Why would someone steal at her AA meeting? Especially when she was trying to be so nice
Pillow to Pillow
November 2014
By:
Simon H.
| Sag Harbor, New York
A newcomer learns a dream of a concept: If he can make it to bedtime without a drink, he’ll stay sober
Happy Endings
December 2011
By:
Sam G.
| Wingrave
The story of a couple who met in AA and later married
I Found AA in an Australian Prison
October 1967
By:
Leo M.
| Adelaide
From that day I began to listen. . .it sounded as if those blokes had been reading my mail.
What We Need
March 1964
By:
M. D. B.
| Westfield, New Jersey
It isn't always what we want, but the painful truth can be a blessing
AAs Should Be Honest About Sex Problems
May 1961
By:
Jackson
| Michigan
One member's plea for more widespread discussion and understanding of a seldom-mentioned subject in the recovery program