We Seek Through Meditation
November 1996
By:
C.C.
| North Hollywood, California
Reprinted from the March 1985 Grapevine
From the Gates of Insanity and Death
October 1996
Living in the "now," he is beginning to taste the rewards of application to the program of recovery
Searching for Balance
September 1995
By:
Bonnie P.
| Columbus, Ohio
The difficulties and challenges of juggling marriage, meetings, and kids
Reach Out and Touch Someone
August 1995
By:
Bob P.
| Tucson, Arizona
Separated by many miles, these AAs had a three-way meeting over the telephone
Like a Hangnail in a Pickle Factory
April 1995
By:
Bill J.
| Temple, Texas
STEP FOUR: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
The Love Project
August 1973
By:
J. A. B.
| Las Vegas, Nevada
Getting off an ego trip by learning to love others more than yourself - "For it is in giving that we receive. . .
Our Deepest Secrets
When she was able to finally share her shame with her sponsor, a new sober life began
Pills--a Minority Report
July 1968
By:
W. S. R.
| East Norwalk, Connecticut
Here's one alcoholic who finds no charm in pills and capsules. His problem, he says, was booze. . .
I Sent a Christmas Card on Its Way
December 1967
By:
Neva G.
| Alvin, Texas
And in very short order, the sober, not-so-gay divorcée was no longer alone
I Try to Carry the Message Back to Prisons
October 1967
By:
Carl M.
| Miami, Florida
An AA who joined AA in a Florida prison eleven years ago hasn't forgotten. . .
I Was a Podium Grabber
June 1967
By:
P. M. E.
| Glendale, California
A member talks about the compulsion to use meetings for self-projection and how she has dealt with it
Is My Gratitude Grateful?
June 1963
By:
R.W.
| Van Nuys, California
A strictly amateur psychologist discovers that gratitude is scientifically okay
Report from Paris:
October 1961
By:
J. B.
| Paris
in 1960--3 members in 1961--30 members with 100 loner throughout the country
No Refuge from the Law
September 1961
By:
R. K.
| Traverse City, Michigan
Good AA and good citizenship go together