Before we are halfway through
September 2019
| Young & Sober
By:
Sam Marie E.
| Atlanta, Georgia
A member takes us on a long, wonderful journey as she makes her Ninth Step amends and clears a path to freedom
Return to Riverside
June 2018
By:
Fred H.
| Jacksonville, Florida
How a blissful sunny day in 1970 turned into a long drunken hell... and then became a love story to remember
High-flying mom
April 2018
By:
Melani B.
| Pleasanton, California
As her plane took off, so did her drinking, drama and unmanageable life
Bumpy decision
August 2016
A sober doctor learns that finding just the right sponsor can be a contact sport
Third Step Surgery
September 2014
By:
Sam Marie E.,
| Atlanta, Georgia
Used to self-medicating with alcohol, she found herself looking to the Steps
Love in the Valley
April 2013
By:
Surely K.
| Sandy Valley, Nevada
In a small town, a newcomer opens her home to help save lives—and a little gas
The Moon in Gemini
June 2011
By:
Patty A.
She came to one night lying face down on the ground and knew that something had to change
Cut Loose
March 2011
By:
Dave R.
| Manchester, New Hampshire
Confused and sponsorless, a member embarks on a year-long investigation
Out of the wilderness
July 2010
By:
BILL H.
| Ann Arbor, Mich.
A teacher and canoeist finally accepts that drinking has made his life unmanageable
A nice girl like me
March 2010
By:
A.M.
| Scottsdale, Ariz.
A beginner wonders how she ever ended up as an alcoholic
No escape
February 2010
By:
SUE N.
| Menomonee Falls, Wis.
Drinking for relief stops working for this bar-hopping mother of two
Life, Unlimited
September 2007
By:
Diana C.
| Oceanside, California
A teenager reaps rewards of sobriety
Step Four: Where's My Rocket?
April 2005
By:
Steve K.
| New York, New York
Practicing the program in a practical way
How Can We Help?
May 2004
By:
David T.
| Spartanburg, South Carolina
Welcoming someone into AA may not be the answer
The Great Reality Within
April 2003
By:
Guy H.
| Los Angeles, California
For a would-be suicide, the search for peace began with despair
I Won the Boxing Gloves (And the Big Book)
May 1967
By:
C. D.
| El Monte, California
An ex-delegate's story of 20 years' AA service
What About Younger People in AA?
October 1966
By:
G. N. G.
| New York, New York
Younger faces in the crowd appear. . .and disappear. Our author conducts a survey of what's happening
AA Afloat
February 1958
What Do We Do About the Wine?
June 2015
By:
E. M. V.
Or, how I learned to toast the Queen without really drinking
The Little Doctor Who Loved Drunks
January 2015
The original article that appeared following the death of Dr. William Duncan Silkworth in 1951
A Way of Life
December 1999
By:
Jim N.
| West Springfield, Massachusetts
Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
The Twelfth Concept
December 1972
<emphasis type="italic">Bill W.'s</emphasis> Twelve Concept for World Service
My Son, the Alcoholic
April 1967
By:
G. N. G.
| Forest Hills, New York
On Irish cops and rye bread, 'shickers,' and what was wrong with Ham's father
Mental Depression--Unnecessary Evil
March 1966
By:
M. D. B.
| Jackson, Michigan
What is there to help the sober AA who puts in dull, dispirited hours and days?
What Do We Do About the Wine?
August 1964
By:
E. M. V.
Or, how I learned to toast the Queen without really drinking
The Unbeliever
September 1996
<emphasis type="italic">One of the original twenty-nine stories printed in the First Edition of the Big Book,</emphasis> Alcoholics Anonymous, <emphasis type="italic">published in 1935, this story was taken out when the Second Edition was published in 195