Slip Insurance
March 1976
By:
E. S.
| Manhattan, New York
It's up to you to decide which policy you're going to buy
Scream!
April 1975
By:
G. P.
| Elbert, Colorado
A suggested technique for coping with life without booze
The Blade of Grass That Could
June 1972
By:
V. R.
| Beverly Hills, California
Nature taught her the lessons she needed to live the AA way of life
My Name is. . .Melvin
August 1963
By:
M. D. B.
| Jackson, Michigan
and I found the Big Book "out on the hill with those crazy people
Sun Block
August 1991
Once Over Lightly
March 1966
Short Snorts
April 1960
A Sometimes Painful Concoction
July 1988
By:
J. C.
| West Henrietta, New York
Mixing belief and unbelief in a search for a faith that works
Professor Winkley Invents the Pill
November 1976
By:
R. Z.
Winkley's AA friend is supposed to be the first to try it, but he doesn't after all. . . - From the July 1967 Grapevine
The Slip That Didn't Happen
July 1972
By:
D. C. B.
| Washington, District of Columbia
Where he had failed before, Antabuse forced him to wait until the crisis had passed
Professor Winkley Invents the Pill
July 1967
By:
R. Z.
| San Diego, California
Winkley's AA friend is supposed to be the first to try it, but he doesn't after all. . .
The Antidote for Fear - Prudence, Trust, and Faith
November 1959
By:
Bill W.
Each year during the season of giving thanks we try to bring you a few new and meaningful words on an old but ever deepening subject: the Twelve Traditions of AA. We heard none better in the past year than Bill W.'s closing words to the General Service Co
Quite an impression
May 2017
By:
Moira B.
| Pearl River, New York
Many of us have a shameful family event we never want to remember—or forget. This one roared
The Search for Quality
December 1973
By:
M. E. S.
| Manhattan, New York
Can we continue to progress throughout our AA lives?
I Want What She Has
June 2025
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Terri T.
| Billings, Montana
The joy outside volunteers brought in and the support her sober roommate got was the thing that got her attention
The Day I Unmuted
October 2022
| Relapse
By:
Tracy L.
| Ottawa, Ontario
Every day she kept logging in—often drunk. Then finally she spoke up and said those magic words
Time to Up My Game
October 2020
| Money and Sobriety
By:
Anonymous
| Corpus Christi, Texas
The first 11 Steps had transformed his life. Now it was time for Step Twelve
Unwrapped
December 2013
By:
Sam Marie E.
| Atlanta, Georgia
This year, her gifts did not come in a box
Flood Relief
October 2008
By:
Marie S.
| Indiana
Indiana committee carries the message to AA evacuees