The Threat of the Twelve Steps
October 1965
By:
Anon
| Vermont
We went to extremes in drinking, why not in working the program?
The Rum-Soaked Razor Bill
May 1963
By:
M. D. B.
| Jackson, Michigan
Bird watching for fun, profit and sobriety
Silent Partners
August 1958
By:
Marian M.
| Springfield, Illinois
The story of one of the pioneer "wives' groups"--now part of the Al-Anon Family Group Set-up--is here chronicled by one of its founders.
The Maritimes
May 1951
Eastward to Price Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. Islands of great harbors...and harbor now for fifty-one AA groups. AA jutting out into the storms of the sea...
AA in Technicolor!
October 1950
The Pleasures of Reading
January 1947
By:
R.E.B.
| Greenwich Village, New York
<emphasis type="italic">Stendhal or The Pursuit of Happiness</emphasis> by Matthew Josephson (Doubleday & Company, Inc., $4)
Where I'm Calling From
January 2016
Homeless and nearly broke, he stood on a New York City corner wondering where to turn
Desperate on New Year’s Eve
December 2015
There he sat, all alone feeling sorry for himself ... would he drink? Or would he reach out?
Dear Grapevine
June 2013
Web Exclusive: Someone to Watch Over Me
January 2012
By:
Christina N.
| Carlsbad, California
A member considers the vulnerability of young people in the rooms
Without a Higher Power
January 2010
By:
GREG H.
| San Diego, Calif.
One Size does not fit all for this atheist in recovery
FAMILIES FIRST
November 2009
By:
Polly A.W.F
| Clearwater, Fla.
A divorced alcoholic struggles to reconnect with her children
The spark that kept me going
November 2009
By:
BOB B.
| Redding, Calif.
A vet reunites with his son after 61 years
Right Before My Eyes
September 2008
By:
Mike K.
| Kenai, Alaska
An AA witnesses the slow, steady growth of a group in prison
Whose Marriage Is It Anyway?
December 2006
By:
Charles H.
| Laguna Woods, California
A rocky relationship in recovery
Centrifugal Force
April 2004
By:
Ames S.
| New York, New York
What does it take to keep from spinning off the face of the planet?
They Call Me the Bid Committee Chick
January 2004
By:
Andrea R.
| Orlando, Florida
Get to ICYPAA," her sponsor told her. "It's the biggest party of young people in AA