What Happened
August 2017
By:
James O. Lorraine
| Port Elizabeth
Detoxing in the hospital after a lifetime of drinking, an alcoholic receives four visitors who bring him the gift of life and sobriety
Traveling To Sobriety
May 2017
Her job takes her around the country, but wherever she lands, AA is there
Locked Up, But Finally Free
April 2017
He committed the crime while sober, and now had to do the time. How would he face it without drinking?
Hope
April 2017
During the course of her drinking career, she thought she was “not your typical alcoholic,” but one last relapse finally breaks through her denial
The Permanent Visitor Comes Home
March 2017
Coming up on a year, a traveling newcomer arrives back to his home group to find an unexpected gift
Two Gifts
March 2017
The first sound he heard, shuffling down the hall of the detox in pajamas and paper slippers, was laughter. But where could it be coming from?
One for Mom and one for Harv
July 2016
A family passes down the gratitude for all Alcoholics Anonymous has given them.
The False Sea
November 2015
He had to concede that his drinking wasn't just part of the fisherman lifestyle
Happily Flipping
July 2015
A newcomer from the North Pacific finds warm, healing sobriety near the Equator
A Planted Seed
May 2015
By:
Ross D.
| Tulsa, Oklahoma
Fifty years ago, a member in Kansas delivered a message to a nursing class that later saved a life
Office Confidential
January 2015
By:
Patty G
| Naples, Florida
Her first day on a new job and she needed a meeting bad. Not a good day to be “outed”
Saved by the Bell
December 2014
By:
Ron B.
| Winnipeg, Manitoba
An attempt to break his anonymity at a job interview gets sidetracked by divine intervention
A Letter Every Week
December 2014
By:
Robyn W.
| Cincinnati, Ohio
A writing assignment from her sponsor healed years and years of anger
What We Were Like
February 1996
By:
Igor S.
| Hartford, Connecticut
Emmet Fox and Alcoholics Anonymous
In a Bamboo House on Stilts
January 1996
By:
Daniel J.
| Maryknoll, New York
It's no secret that AA meetings and members often turn up when they're least expected--and most needed.
We Set Them on Paper
April 1993
By:
Bernie B.
| New York, New York
Step Four: 'Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
The Choice
June 1991
By:
Isabelle H.
| New York, New York
Step Six - Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
