Best Insurance Ever
August 2021
| Seniors in AA
By:
M.G.
| Montclair, N.J.
Working with a prisoner in a serious COVID lockdown delivered both of them tickets to some sanity and peace
On Top of the World
December 2020
| Remote Communities + Sober Holidays
By:
Tandy W.
| Anchorage, Alaska
On a remote island near Russia, a member lucks out and finds another alcoholic, whose AA lifeline is the phone
OUTSIDE IN
July 2009
By:
KEN C.
| Tucson, Ariz
An incarcerated AA and his correspondents help bring meetings into a prison
D.U.I.
June 2006
By:
Emory W.
| Bristol, Virginia
A relapse became the bedrock of one man's sobriety
48 Cents Short
June 2004
By:
Ernie H.
| Flat Rock, North Carolina
After sixteen years, his program still comes up short
AA Around the World
August 1959
By:
B. R.
| Palmyra
I CAN SEE EVERYTHING RIGHT HERE - News, comments and letters from and about AA's worldwide outposts and centers--gleaned from letters to the Grapevine and the General Service Office, and from the "AA Exchange Bulletin," published by the General Service Of
How to Kick Boobtoobitis
March 1967
By:
Anonymous
| Jupiter, Florida
He was hooked on TV until, one night, an old movie set him thinking
Self-indulgence vs. Self-destruction
March 1966
By:
Percy M. Sessions
A sociologist comments on self-love and self-condemnation in alcoholic behavior
In the Place for Drunks
December 1964
The Blessing of an Open Mind
August 1962
By:
B. K.
| Traverse City, Michigan
Accepting the fact that we are powerless often calls for some doing--first we learn to listen and then we listen to learn
People Are like People
January 1961
By:
Anon.
| New York City
We continue to take a personal inventory because all we can really change is OURSELVES