Around AA - Item of AA Information and Experience
September 1968
By:
Chit Chat
No 'Advance Billing' Please!
The World, the Directory, and AA
July 1964
A pillow, a blanket & hot soup
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
By:
Lee Y.
| San Antonio, Texas
At his end, with nowhere to go, an alcoholic gets a helping hand from someone from the “other side of town” reached out
Building a life
May 2019
| Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
By:
K.F.
| Indianapolis, Indiana
For 40 years now, just like his sponsor said, he’s been celebrating a life worth staying sober for
Our troublesome friend
March 2019
| What’s On Your Mind?
By:
Anonymous
| Georgia
A group in Georgia struggles with how to handle a most unruly member
At Home in AA History
December 2018
| Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities
By:
Heidi G.
| Port Colborne, Ontario
She wondered why her new apartment had such an aura of serenity. It turned out to be the birthplace of AA in her hometown
Can I buy you a drink?
November 2018
By:
Joan B.
| Toronto, Ontario
In 1963, at a ski lodge in Quebec, an alcoholic makes a friendly offer. Boy, did she get the wrong guy
Father and Son
July 2018
By:
Peter C.
| Springfield, Mass.
Their sobriety date is six week apart. They’ve shared the same joy, pain and love as their lives opened up in sobriety
Long overdue
September 2017
By:
Dave R.
| Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Sometimes when we clean house and pay people back, we get a wonderful surprise
Office Party Gone Bad
December 2016
By:
Mark E.
| Lebanon, Ohio
Boy, had he done it now. Little did he know he was about to be quietly 12th-Stepped
A hundred miles of bad road
November 2016
His grandfather told him he was headed the wrong way. He sure wishes he’d listened
Out of the Box (of Cheap Wine)
August 2014
By:
Ellen G.
| Pittstown, New Jersey
Much of what she heard in meetings didn't make sense at first but she kept coming
One Day in June
May 2014
By:
Kathy D.
| Atlanta, Georgia
On a relapse, she found her self defeated again by alcohol
Flight from Omaha
December 2013
By:
Carleen L.
| Helena, Montana
Most Twelfth-Step calls are down in the trenches, but sometimes they’re up in the air
Birthday Blackout
July 2013
By:
Carrie B.
| Bend, Oregon
A momentous night pushes her to do the unthinkable—go to AA!
The Anonymity Principle
May 2012
By:
Matt S.
| Buffalo Grove, Illinois
He confided in a co-worker about his recovery in AA, and later he had to pay a price
The Metamorphosis of a Firefly
February 2012
By:
Diane W.
| Oceanside, California
Alcohol transformed her into a wild child but AA transformed her into a loving, mature person