A Sponsor Can't Be My Higher Power
May 1972
By:
Dean S.
| Santa Monica, California
We belong to no one and no one belongs to us. We are God's "babies
At Wit’s End
March 2024
| Spanish-Speaking AA Members
Lunch with the Ex
February 2017
By:
Michael M.
| Alexandria, Virginia
Though he was full of fear when she asked to meet him, he intuitively knew what to do
A Ruinous Hobby
January 2015
By:
Jeane E.
| Nebraska
For nearly 50 years, her life was consumed by alcohol
Highway Patrol or HP?
November 2014
By:
Sarah H.
| Vernal, Utah
A felony DUI conviction set her on the path to sobriety
Why Me and Not My Brother?
March 2014
By:
Diane C.
| Guelph, Ontario
In an alcoholic family, a sister turns out to be one of the lucky ones
Bobbleheads
November 2012
By:
Dan W.
| Eatonville, Washington
A newcomer learns the heard truth about the men who keep smiling and nodding
Shattered
September 2006
By:
Hugh S.
| Stanhope, New Jersey
As one tragedy unfolded, another came to an end
Gunning For God's Job
June 2003
By:
Richard E.
After a rampage through the Middle East, an alcoholic discovers the difference between a dry drunk and emotional sobriety
Mr. Lucky
November 2002
By:
Jack G.
| Glenmont, New York
His father got sober in AA in 1945; his brother went over a cliff, but the writer thought he'd escaped the disease. Then the world started closing in.