Tales of a Roll Dog
July 2011
By:
Shannon R.
| Los Angeles, California
A drunken teenage mascot grows up to discover that even when she’s sober, she’s a blast
The Grapevine: Past, Present and Future
July 2011
By:
Bill W.
In July 1945, Bill W. penned an article on the AA Grapevine that is still relevent today
Obsession Progression
June 2007
By:
Melody R.
| Bandon, Oregon
An AA learns that there is more to sobriety than a dry spell
My Spiritual Toolkit
August 2004
By:
Frank C.
| Hawthorne, California
Pick it up and even the damage of alcoholism and racial resentment can be repaired
No Longer Alone
March 1995
By:
Juliana
| Flushing, New York
There is the manic-depressive type, who is, perhaps, the least understood by his friends, and about whom a whole chapter could be written."--Alcoholics Anonymous
Weeding Out the Crabgrass
August 1984
By:
A. B.
| San Diego, California
Step Four - It's an individual program, and on the pages that follow, four AAs describe their personal approaches to this vital Step and tell us how working it helped their sobriety
The Spiritual Substance
August 1981
By:
D. H.
| Wilmington, Delaware
A presentation to the 1981 General Service Conference
Alcoholic? Addict?
January 1982
By:
B. W.
| Red Bluff, California
One AA's suggestion: Let's keep our terms straight
The Only Day I Have
August 1970
By:
J. C.
| Topeka, Kansas
Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow will soon be today
The Pleasures of Reading
November 1946
By:
K.T.
| New York
WE HAPPY FEW by Helen Howe (Simon and Schuster, $2.75)
Lonely Refuge
November 2017
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By:
Henri C.
| Tacoma, Washington
An African-American member recalls rough times growing up and how AA saved him from a long desperate road
Home Is Where I Am
April 2016
After 20 years, a man returns to his original home group and gets a big surprise
Better Than I Deserve
June 2007
By:
Ben F.
| Costa Mesa, California
A boy becomes a man under the tutelage of AA
Going to Any Lengths
February 2005
By:
Ron B.
| Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
One AA can do a lot to carry the message to elders
In AA's First Five Years
November 1993
Lois W., wife of AA's co-founder, Bill, recalls the time in AA when there were few members and no Big Book. - From the January 1967 Grapevine
Ice Water in Hell
February 1973
By:
I. A. P.
| Rochester, New York
We're not necessarily going to get everything we want
In AA'S First Five Years
January 1967
Lois W., wife of AA's co-founder, Bill, recalls the time in AA when there were few members and no Big Book.
God Never Gave Up on Me
March 2011
By:
Tom D.
A member tells how he found his way back to the religion of his childhood