MY BROTHER, MY TRUTH
September 2008
By:
Pamy H.
| Logan, Utah
How do you make amends to an active alcoholic or to someone you can no longer reach?
A Young Mother's Regret
September 2008
By:
J.P.
| Salt Lake City, Utah
An alcoholic finds a way to face her disabilities and the wreckage of her past
Railway Connection
October 2006
By:
Jeff T.
| Kansas City, Missouri
How trains connected three alcoholics
Some Serious Good
September 2006
By:
Chris K.
| Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
An AA contemplates the magic of recovery
Tradition Four: Autonomy--not Self-will
April 2006
By:
Richard B.
| Iselin, New Jersey
From the April 1990 Grapevine
Shortcut To Dreamland
February 2006
By:
Bert S.
| Morro Bay, California
From drawing board, to gutter, to AA
One for the Ages
September 2005
By:
Holly H.
| Huntsville, Alabama
How do you celebrate your twenty-first birthday without drinking?
Waiting for the 11:40
September 2004
By:
Jeff N.
| Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Living all the life he could stand
Sparrow In the Snow
July 2003
By:
James V. A.
| Mankato, Minnesota
Creatures great and small survive the storm
Tell It to the Marines
February 2003
By:
Jay P.
| Oceanside, California
An AA follows in his father's footsteps
The Watering Hole
September 2002
By:
Stephen T.
| Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Even lions and zebras know that some places are sacred
Our Deepest Secrets
When she was able to finally share her shame with her sponsor, a new sober life began
A Royal Bottom
Wallowing in gin while watching the funeral of a princess, a dad finally wakes up to his own life
Recollections of a Blackout
March 1968
By:
T. D.
| Woodstock, Vermont
The city editor said, "Do a rewrite on the Pope's death." It was news to him the Pope had died. . .
I Sent a Christmas Card on Its Way
December 1967
By:
Neva G.
| Alvin, Texas
And in very short order, the sober, not-so-gay divorcée was no longer alone
A Night in Paris
February 1967
By:
Anonymous
If you want an unusual experience in the City of Lights try the AA way
Make Your Immaturity Pay
March 1965
By:
Anonymous
Those defects can keep us alive to the need to change
AA and HH
July 1963
By:
M. K.
| Miami, Florida
The Gulf of Mexico loomed on one side, and an even bigger gulf on the other--
The Mountains Shall Bring Peace. . ."--Psalms 72:3
February 1961
By:
H. G.
| Cincinnati, Ohio
Booze and song-plugging went hand in hand for this veteran tunesmith until the merry-go-round broke down
A.A. Steps for the Underprivileged Non-A.A.
June 1960
By:
Edward J. Dowling, S. J.
A longtime friend of AA shows how the Twelve Steps can be effectively applied to any problem in life
A True Christmas Story
December 1954
By:
Reprinted by request from "The Eye-
| Long Beach, California