We Pay the Piper
April 1982
By:
W. H.
| Manhattan, New York
Tradition 7 - Every AA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions
Action and More Action
January 1978
By:
H. R.
| Millbrae, California
The Big Book tells us time and again you have to give it away to keep it
Above the World's Battles
April 1977
By:
B. L.
| Manhattan, New York
AA has but one primary purpose. To indulge in public controversy is to threaten our unity and impede that purpose
The Pink Cloud Didn't Come Back
March 1976
By:
A college professor
| North Carolina
A nine-page section of sharing from five AAs who are finding their way
Spectators in AA
November 1973
There are those who really try to work the program and still have trouble. Then there are others who stand on the sidelines waving a flag - From the October 1951 Grapevine
The Name-droppers
April 1969
By:
T. W. (Robbie)
| Alexandria, Va.
After twenty years, he recalls 'a condition of panic' and how AA found a roundabout way to deliver the message
The Antidote for Fear - Prudence, Trust, and Faith
November 1959
By:
Bill W.
Each year during the season of giving thanks we try to bring you a few new and meaningful words on an old but ever deepening subject: the Twelve Traditions of AA. We heard none better in the past year than Bill W.'s closing words to the General Service Co
Doctor Calls "Slip" More Normal Than Alcoholic
June 1959
By:
William D. Silkworth, M.D.
January 1947
Loving It!
August 2015
After being rendered homeless by alcoholism, his life in sobriety was pretty good
Christmas in a bar
December 2013
By:
Mike H.
| El Cajon, California
The call to come home pierced his empty soul. It was from his 12-year-old son
You won’t find rainbows in the bottom of a glass
December 2013
By:
John B.
| Rochester, New York
While Sinatra’s lonely saloon song plays, an old-timer wonders how he picked up after 39 years
Dear Grapevine
December 2013
I was going through a rough spot when I first walked down the stairs of that church
Enjoy the Ride
May 2013
By:
George F.
| Drums, Pennsylvania
Learning to have fun again was a trip of its own
Let the Ball Drop!
December 2012
By:
Bill D.
| Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
How one sober alcoholic learned to have a blast on the final night of the year
Lucky Punch
December 2011
By:
P.T.
| New Britain, Connecticut
A wild roundhouse blow literally socks him into sobriety
At the Crossroads of My Alcoholism
July 2011
By:
Gary C.
| Woodstown, New Jersey
He had reached that place where he couldn't imagine life with alcohol, nor life without it
A Solitary Swimmer
June 2011
By:
Nancy L.
| Albuquerque, New Mexico
After a childhood of solitary pursuits, she became a secret drinker
MY DAUGHTER THE ALCOHOLIC
August 2010
By:
DAN H.
| Arlington Heights, Ill.
A young woman hits bottom and leads her father to recognize his own alcoholism
LOIS REMEMBERS
November 2009
By:
Lois W.
Bill's wife recalls when he and she and the first AAs were very young
Tradition 10: My Father, Myself
October 2008
By:
Juliet H.
| Pinole, California
Discarding opinions, inside AA and out
Coming to Believe
October 2005
By:
Ann S.
| San Marcos, California
An atheist's long journey toward faith