Embracing Change
March 2020
| Puzzled
By:
Paula C.
| Georgetown, Texas
Sobriety prepared her to step out of her comfort zone and take on a new adventure
Slim to None
August 2011
By:
John F.
| Holbrook, New York
After several days in a cheap motel, he wasn't betting heavily on his chances for sobriety
Are We Doing Enough?
December 2005
By:
Gary K.
| Parker, Colorado
An AA looks at the changing face of Twelfth-Step work
Above the World's Battles
April 1977
By:
B. L.
| Manhattan, New York
AA has but one primary purpose. To indulge in public controversy is to threaten our unity and impede that purpose
Fault-finding
September 1975
By:
B. M.
| Saratoga, California
When we cannot suffer others, we are the ones who suffer
My Alcoholic Twelve Steps
August 1973
By:
J. E.
| Charlotte, North Carolina
A period of self-examination reveals the steps he lived by while drinking
Short Snorts
July 1960
Ham on Wry
March 1987
The Anecdote Bin
December 1962
Learning to love
June 2020
| The Annual Prison Issue
By:
Elias L.
| Downey, Calif.
After 30 hard years of liquor, violence and incarceration, he found AA, began to make amends and turned his life around
ME & MY BIG MOUTH
October 2010
By:
JULIET H.
| Pinole, Calif.
A self-proclaimed 'AA geek' learns about Tradition Twelve the hard way
I LIKED THE MEDICINE
March 1953
By:
D. A. S.
| Frederickton, New Brunswick
You have to live it, feel it, suffer it before you know it. . .and you have to admit it before you can recover.
The Anecdote Bin
November 1990
Dedicated to the lighter side of our common problem - From the October 1963 Grapevine
The Anecdote Bin
November 1976
Dedicated to the lighter side of our common problem - From the August 1965 Grapevine
Short Takes
April 1966