Step Four: The Other Man's Inventory
April 2007
By:
John B.
| San Jose, California
A member experiments
Bloom Where You Are Planted
July 2006
By:
Sean F.
| Akron, Ohio
Staying sober inside with meetings and without
It's Not About Me
January 2004
By:
Janis H.
| St. Catharines, Ontario
The freedom of getting out of the way
Closing a Home Group
November 2002
By:
Anonymous
| Roswell, Georgia
The Home Group<lbHeartbeat of AA
The Answers Will Come
December 1977
By:
L. C.
| Fort Wayne
A father discovers the Big Book was right
Thank You, Casper
July 1969
By:
Anonymous
| Boston, Massachusetts
Hurt, frightened, confused, she found help through her Higher Power, whom she chose to call Casper
Report from an Unemployed Monkey
March 1969
By:
R. W. D.
| California
Learn where the monkey shines and how to dim his activity. Here are full directions, as dictated by Moe the Monk himself
I Found AA in an Australian Prison
October 1967
By:
Leo M.
| Adelaide
From that day I began to listen. . .it sounded as if those blokes had been reading my mail.
Omar Hits Bottom
July 1961
By:
R. Z.
| Council Bluffs, Iowa
A loaf of bread, A jug of wine--And WOW!
Tina's Only Companion. . . Loneliness
January 1952
Sober at 16
September 2024
| Young and Sober
By:
Steve M.
| Exton, Pennsylvania
He drank to escape the world, until one day a guy named Steve told him he wouldn’t have to hurt anymore
I’m Your Man
February 2024
| Getting Through Tough Times
By:
Eric Z.
| Lafayette, Colorado
His long, beautiful journey with Jack included race cars, Big Books and, yes, matzo ball soup
Getting my attention
April 2022
| What's On Your Mind?
By:
“Marine” Tom S.
| Sarasota, Fla.
The more he sees the presence of a Higher Power in his life, the less he argues in the parking lot
From a Distance
October 2020
| Money and Sobriety
By:
D.J.B.
| Wyckoff, N.J.
As the COVID crisis continues, she’s more determined than ever to help reach out any way she can
Easy Does It Doing It
February 2019
| Stories by Our Longtime Members
By:
Jack P.
| Holiday, Fla.
After years of going out and coming back in, he discovered that everything happened for a reason