Real Men Don't Make Amends--Do They?
October 1984
By:
N. D.
| Omaha, Nebraska
Step 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
Flag-wavers Anonymous?
July 1982
By:
W. H.
| Manhattan, New York
Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy
Carry This Message
January 1982
By:
W. H.
| Manhattan, New York
Tradition 5 - Each group has but one primary purpose--to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers
A Time-tested Program of Recovery
October 1981
By:
P. M.
| Riverside, Illinois
The Twelve Steps are the best treatment for our disease
A Protective Higher Power
August 1979
By:
A. J.
| Columbus, Ohio
Was it the God the theologians describe?
The Roots of Resentment
October 1977
By:
F. M.
| New Canaan, Connecticut
We can see ourselves in the anger we feel toward others
My Way Or Yours?
April 1977
By:
C. H.
| Fairfield, Connecticut
Let's not make a big thing about how they do it--it's how it works that counts
Keeping It Complicated
August 1976
By:
Anonymous
| Manhattan, New York
How to break another person's anonymity while trying not to
Twelve Steps and the Older Member
June 1956
By:
J. E.
| Bloomington, Indiana
Step Twelve: <emphasis type="italic">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.</emphasis>
The Problems of a "Teen-aged" AA
September 1954
By:
A. T.
| New York City, New York
TO START THE BALL ROLLING ON A GENERAL DISCUSSION OF "AFTER SOBRIETY--WHAT?" (SEE AUGUST GRAPEVINE, "THE TWELVE STEPS AND THE OLDER MEMBER") WE ASKED AN OLD TIMER TO WRITE ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN AS WE GROW OLDER IN AA.
A Letter From a Traveler
March 1953
By:
T. C.
| Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania
The group that gives help to a "transient" doesn't always hear how the journey ended. . .but this one did, and the ending was happy!
Of Valentines, and Whisky Bottles and Humility, and Things
February 1953
By:
W. T.
| Manhattan, New York
The Little Loophole
May 1952
By:
M.K.
| South Salem, New York
Barely five feet two but not a "little alcoholic." A high bottom lady drunk finds that there are no alcoholic degrees. . .
On Leading a "Good" Meeting
September 1949
By:
L.D.
| West Redding, Connecticut
--one man's opinion--