Good Reading
July 1948
First Southern Regional Meet Set for OCT. 8
October 1945
Showtime
March 2021
| Making Amends
By:
Mark J.
| Kona, Hawaii
After years of bad blood, it was time to make amends to his mom. Who knew it would involve a new outfit and a bunch of dancing
Maximum picnic
July 2018
By:
Ruth L.
| Beaconsfield, Quebec
Doing service in prison not only feeds her soul, but sometimes even her stomach
Doctors' Opinions
September 2011
By:
Shauna M.
| London
More can be done to educate the medical community about alcoholism
Nothing Short of Our Very Best
June 1985
By:
J. H.
| Transvaal
Five presentations from the Eighth World Service Meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous October 21–25, 1984
Doctor, Why Can't I Stop Drinking?
August 1970
By:
G. E. Deering, MD
For guilt and remorse, substitute a worthwhile experience, suggests this doctor friend of AA
An Inner Truth
November 2013
By:
Tim B.
| Jasper, Indiana
Wife or no wife, legs or no legs, a Marine discovers that AA works when you get honest
To Be Alive Again
August 1972
By:
M. U.
| Brighton, Colorado
To taste, savor, feel the pains and joys of reality
Spiritus Contra Spiritum
May 1982
By:
B. H.
| Staten Island, New York
A clergyman's conflict between his faith and the desire to drink
Don't Take Our Word for It
November 1981
By:
S. S.
An early Chicago member writes a sequel to her story (page 304 in the Big Book) - From the January 1969 Grapevine
A Prescription for Sobriety
November 1980
By:
Anonymous
An interview with one of early AA's nonalcoholic friends, "the little doctor who loved drunks" - From the June 1945 Grapevine
Nobody Could Have Kept Me from My Slip
March 1972
By:
C. S.
| Santa Fe, New Mexico
Once the decision was made - Now the struggle to come back demands patience, honesty, and humility
Don't Take Our Word for It
January 1969
By:
S. B. S.
| Sarasota, Florida
An early Chicago member writes the sequel to her story (page 304 in "Alcoholics Anonymous") and clearly spells out the progression of sobriety - Big Book Stories--Updated
The Big Blues
April 1963
By:
J. W.
| River Edge, New Jersey
The way out may lie beyond the physical portals of AA
No Trumpets Blew
February 1953
By:
P. S. C.
| Alton, Illinois
His spiritual awakening was more prosaic and yet just as powerful as the kind in movies and books