18 Wheels & 12 Steps
December 2025
| Sober Holidays & Remote Communities
By:
Ken H.
| Pearl River, Louisiana
A Loner trucker shares how he stays sober on the road—from L.A. to Maine to Florida
The Boisterous Bunch
June 2022
| Stories by Longtimers!
By:
Roxane R.
| Valley Center, Calif.
Hey, it was the 80s. We were rowdy and having fun. But we stayed sober and we had each other’s backs
About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research and Treatment
January 1980
By:
The Big Issue
Campus Campaign
4. Working with professionals
November 1961
By:
M.S.
| Honolulu, Hawaii
How we can best rededicate our lives to the service of the sick alcoholic
Memoirs of a Black AA
August 1985
By:
C. H.
| Jackson, Mississippi
He learned to ignore racial differences and concentrate on sobriety
Breakdown, 3 A.M.
September 2015
A newcomer gets busy making sober friends online, until one night in D.C. it really pays off
Letter to AA
November 2025
| Early days of AA
By:
Reinhold Niebuhr
| New York, New York
In a 1960 Grapevine, the Serenity Prayer’s author shares his thoughts about our movement
About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research and Treatment
December 1977
By:
Melwood Farm Newsletter
For Alcoholic Clergymen
The Room Within Us
March 1964
By:
Anonymous
| Lodi, Ohio
Humility is "spiritual charm"--and something more
Friendly Yet Different
June 1990
By:
Anonymous
| Denver, Colorado
Sixth Tradition - An 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 primary purpose.
Calling Carrie Confederate
August 1950
By:
Anonymous
THE SOUTHERN WOMAN ALCOHOLIC HAS A SPECIAL PROBLEM. . . . .
Humility on the Air
October 1976
By:
Anonymous
| Stamford, Connecticut
Even after the broadcast ended they remembered the spiritual foundation of our Traditions
About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research and Treatment
February 1979
By:
Neil Solomon, MD
To Abstain or Not to Abstain
About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research and Treatment
January 1974
By:
William Borders
Our Hero--Al Cohol