Bumpy decision
August 2016
A sober doctor learns that finding just the right sponsor can be a contact sport
Women in AA in the 1950s
August 2011
By:
Betty H. (as told to Deborah H.)
| Mesa, Arizona
Remembering what it was like to get sober as a woman in the early days of AA in the Twin Cities
My father's example
October 2009
By:
ERIC R.
| Madison, Ala.
He knew he'd never be an alcoholic like his dad
The Runaway
August 2006
By:
Kim W.
| Brentwood, California
After years on the run, an alcoholic finally finds home
Came to Believe
June 2019
| Letting Go of Resentments
By:
Tommy T.
| Indiana
A former inmate’s eloquent plea for help and service to America’s prisons
Hope in a Long Line
January 2018
| Sponsorship
By:
Margie M.
| Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
After years of abuse and drunken marriages, she followed her mom and daughter to a better life
Someone Saved My Life Tonight
January 2012
By:
Allen K.
| St. Cloud, Minnesota
Not everyone at the bar thought his suicide joke was funny
I KNEW I'D BE OKAY
July 2009
By:
WENDI B.
| Danbury, Conn
In a prison without meetings, a woman finds the spirit of AA
Saturday Night
May 2008
By:
David S.
| New York, New York
It doesn't have to be the loneliest night any more
Gentle Drunks
January 2007
Living the Pledge
October 2005
44,000 celebrate sobriety at the 2005 International Convention in Toronto
A Visitor's Report
July 2001
Self-help Groups
August 1975
By:
Ashton Brisolara, M.Ed.
How victims of disaster band together to strengthen and support each other