Sobriety-by-mail
June 1967
By:
Murray M.
In a New Zealand prison: Four walls enclose him day and night, but they don't keep out the AA message
A Hopeless Case
September 1965
By:
J. M. H.
| West Trenton, New Jersey
Overweight, drunk and on drugs--why live? Then along came a doctor, a nurse and AA
The Big Depression
October 1964
By:
D. W.
| Van Nuys
Another AA recommended a special kind of help to this member: it worked
The Good Old Daze
September 1964
By:
W. S. R.
| East Norwalk, Connecticut
You can't deny it, Kildare, we might almost have got killed. . .
That Loud-mouth !*"#!!*!
October 1963
By:
B. E. T.
| Siesta Key, Florida
I had just learned to control my resentments, when
Phobias and Other Phoolishness
December 1962
By:
J.R.B.
| North Hollywood, California
Fearless Fosdick hear this: dentist, barber, airplane, elevator and work desk hold no terrors for this sober head
Some General Approaches
April 1953
By:
F. H.
| New Orleans, Louisiana
The "cause and cure" of alcoholism can be left to the experts; AA's job is IMMEDIATE TREATMENT
Early AA: Still Active After All These Years
March 2007
By:
Mary W.
| Mountain View, California
One of the first female AAs on the San Francisco Peninsula shares her story
How The Universe Works
November 2006
By:
John L.
| Pinellas Park, Florida
A false alarm brought real help
Hiding In A Tree House
April 2006
By:
Steve F.
| Glencoe, Illinois
First he got sober; then he grew up
Just Give Me Something to Stop the Pain
May 1995
By:
Pattie B.
| Lake Oswego, Oregon
This "pure" alcoholic found herself drinking cough syrup and hooked on pills
A Word to the Wise
May 1987
By:
J. C.
| West Henrietta, New York
The difference between acceptance and change
Humility
February 1977
By:
I. P.
| Rochester, New York
It took the pain of humiliation, and a caring sponsor, to help her attain the peaceful joy of
A Sunrise Service in Athens
April 1966
By:
Lou P.
| Springfield, Missouri
She needed dark glasses before dawn that Easter, but before another dawn came. . .