On His Way
October 1991
At War With the World
December 1984
By:
A. L.
| Gentry, Arkansas
In this "season to be jolly," three AAs remind us of a common character defect
The Two Phases of Sobriety
November 1983
By:
Anonymous
Soon we begin to feel a certain freedom from the desire to drink - From the September 1973 Grapevine
Without Preaching Or Moralizing
October 1980
By:
A. B.
| Torrance, Calif.
Twelfth Step - He thought it would be like earning merit badges in the Boy Scouts
Reflections of Sobriety
March 1978
By:
C. C.
| North Hollywood, California
Our new selves are mirrored in the eyes of our loved ones
That Fabulous Convention!
October 1975
By:
J.G
| Manhattan, New York
AA's 40th Anniversary Denver, Colorado July 4--6,1975
A Dream is a Promise You Give Yourself
November 2023
| Gratitude
By:
Elizabeth P.
| New York
Instead of crashing at the gates of alcoholic hell, she got to have cake with her good sober friends
Backyard Bowery
June 2019
| Letting Go of Resentments
By:
Steve S.
| Manhasset, New York
As a boy, he’d seen men drunk on the street and wondered how they got there. Well, he found out
A Late Bloomer in AA
May 2019
| Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
By:
Rick
| W. Plains, Mont.
His drinking career stretched around the globe. Oddly, he was stuck in one place
Dear Grapevine
May 2018
Down & Out in DC
August 2017
By:
Bernard R.
| Dover, New Hampshire
An old-timer remembers when he couldn’t keep a job or a marriage. But he sure knew where the liquor was
Simply surrender
May 2017
By:
Gwyneth N.
| Saco, Maine
The spiritual connection she desperately sought for years appeared when she found AA
Joanie's God
August 2009
By:
JEANNE R.
| Monaca, Penn.
A newcomer borrows her sponsor's Higher Power
Life Is Hard Enough Already
October 1996
Ice Water in Hell
February 1973
By:
I. A. P.
| Rochester, New York
We're not necessarily going to get everything we want
The Cage
July 1971
By:
E. S.
| Brooklyn, New York
From the year 1990 comes a horror story for our time
Happy Birthday to Me
January 1961
By:
H.W.
| Pleasantville, New York
An AA mother appraises the results of her six years of sobriety on her son--and finds it good
A Lifetime of Service
February 1999
<emphasis type="italic">An Interview with Elaine Johnson, Ph.D.</emphasis> Class A (nonalcoholic) Trustee on the AA General Service Board, US/Canada