A New Canoe
March 1964
By:
T. C.
| Port Arthur, Ontario
Sobriety is a wobbly contraption, until you learn how to steer it
The Stretched Mind
September 1963
By:
J. W.
| Chicago, Illinois
One member uses the Twelve Steps as an expandable tape-measure
This Drunk Was Really a Monkey
October 1962
By:
M. V.
| Stillwater, Minnesota
Two zoo stories, similar until now--but the endings may be different
The Organization Drunk
August 1961
By:
V. B.
| Arlington, Virginia
An executive-type career girl found even AA committee work no substitute for the healing fellowship of the group
Toper's Tale of the Month
February 1961
By:
T. F. C. as told to C.W.
| West Redding, Connecticut
EPISOT 1. Big Man with the Boss's Dough
Dignity?
June 1960
Worrying about what other people think of you slows up the maturing process in AA, this famous writer thinks
From the Grass Roots
December 1957
Ed. note--In the October issue a non-alcoholic M.D. called for discussion of whether or not prospective employers of alcoholics should be told the truth about the existence of an alcoholics problem; in particular, what alcoholics felt the doctor in the ease should say when asked to recommend.
Needed: 'Real People'
July 1983
By:
D. P.
| Aurora, Colorado
In this section, four AAs tell us how it works, inside and outside
Every Bachelor Needs Company
August 1977
By:
J. O'B.
| Manhattan, New York
Even if it is only a beautifully ugly basset hound
More Is Not Necessarily Better
May 1977
By:
C. C.
| North Hollywood, California
When we're happy, we're the happiest; when we're sad, we're the saddest. If one is good, two are better. We are the "excessive" people
Twenty-five Years on a Bar Stool
June 1969
By:
C. H. H.
| Fairfield, Connecticut
You AA nuts are sure missing a lot!
I Was Choice No. 2
January 1969
By:
Anonymous
| California
Whether he's called first, second, or ninth, this circuit rider is twelfth-stepping all the way
The Big Depression
October 1964
By:
D. W.
| Van Nuys
Another AA recommended a special kind of help to this member: it worked
From the Vintage Years
July 1958
A Sampling of the First Anniversary Issue: <emphasis type="italic">July 1945</emphasis>
Twelve Steps and the Older Member
December 1955
By:
J. E.
| Bloomington, Indiana
Step Nine: Made direct amends to such people whenever possible except when to do so would injure them or others
Four More Explanations in "Slip" Clinic
April 1946