What Makes AA Work?
December 1956
By:
Ben E.
| Old Greenwich, Connecticut
. . .OR SHOULDN'T I ASK. . .?
Read the Label!
September 1953
By:
K.D.
| Bloomfield, New Jersey
The Twelfth-Stepper's Handy Guide (for feminine cases only)
Anonymity!
April 1951
By:
H. S.
| Great Neck, Long Island, New York
Gratitude, Humility, Anonymity. . .and the greatest of these is. . .
My Home Group Brothers
Web Exclusives
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By:
Alex E.
| Spring Valley, Calif.
His life “a perfect storm of grief and failure,” he turned to the men in his home group
My Two Sponsors
July 1973
By:
Lu S.
| Fort Worth, Texas
One was tough and one was patient; each had something to offer
The Chairman
July 1951
<emphasis type="italic">I'd even go for complacency if it</emphasis> WORKED <emphasis type="italic">for me</emphasis>.
Can’t Stop
December 2016
By:
Coleen F.
| Jacksonville, Alabama
Her compulsion to drink made her hide vodka everywhere—in drawers, in old coats—even on the highway
Paradise not lost
October 2016
How a return to the scene of her darkest drinking became a beautiful experience
St. Louis Blues
August 2016
Too much booze and a nasty fistfight got this 20-year-old mother a one-way ticket to a psych ward
Dear Grapevine
June 2016
Dear Grapevine
May 2016
One Main Road
November 2015
Early in sobriety, she took a trip that confirmed for her that the path of AA was the right one
Dear Grapevine
September 2015
Dear Grapevine
August 2015
The Opera Singer
June 2015
By:
Bonnie L.
| Antioch, California
She left the stage and hid in the bottle. Now she faces the music and sings a new tune
The Road from Reno
September 2014
By:
Don A.
| Germantown, Tennessee
On a cross-country trip with his parents, a son learns a valuable lesson while making amends to his mom
Dear Grapevine
August 2014
Rowing Up the River
June 2014
By:
Jim
| Tasmania
After he started feeling worse sober, he realized that he needed to do things differently
20 reasons
December 2013
By:
Debi E.
| Springfield, Illinois
After 20 glorious sober years, a woman expresses her gratitude
Confrontation
September 2013
By:
Anonymous
An old-timer learns a valuable lesson about the need to "discipline" her group
Back in the Groove
January 2013
A man at a mountain retreat helps a songwriter change his tune—just in time