Can I Buy You a Drink?
August 1995
By:
Joan B.
| Toronto, Ontario
This AA member tried to buy Bill W. a drink--and got an earful of AA instead
AA Around the World
October 1994
By:
Hans W.
| Rotterdam
Excerpted from the March 1994 "European Newsletter," published by the European Service Office of AA in York, England
A Patron Saint of AA
September 1990
By:
Charles M.
| Columbia, Tennessee
Ninth Tradition - AA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
One plate at a time
December 2016
By:
Tim S.
| Riverview, Florida
Dirty laundry, piles of trash and stacks of filthy dishes. Little by little, a newcomer cleans up his act
A hundred miles of bad road
November 2016
His grandfather told him he was headed the wrong way. He sure wishes he’d listened
Final Chance
July 2016
She was struck drunk again and again for two years, then found herself in detox with a final chance to become willing
Things My Mother Taught Me
April 2016
An AA member deepens her faith in her Higher Power during her mother's illness
From Cocktails to Chaos
March 2016
Drinking for her never did resemble the social hours she saw in her childhood home
An Unsuspected Inner Resource
February 2016
If there’s something deep inside that’s smarter and kinder, then why not listen to it?
On the Job
December 2015
When he first got sober, his career came first … until it he could no longer hold a job
Losing Patti
October 2015
A member recalls how her sister's illness and subsequent death helped her get sober
The Invisible Threshold
July 2015
By:
Danalee C.
She thought if she told the truth in the rooms, she would be cast out, shunned and unloved. It turned out the opposite was true
20 Golden Years
September 2014
By:
Pete J.
| Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Some men get a gold watch when they retire. He got a whole new life
Out of the Box (of Cheap Wine)
August 2014
By:
Ellen G.
| Pittstown, New Jersey
Much of what she heard in meetings didn't make sense at first but she kept coming
To Lift his Spirits
July 2014
By:
V,J.
| Chandler, Arizona
After an AA mom’s son lands in jail for drunken driving, she learns to stay sober and let go
Like a Duckling
June 2014
By:
Matt S.
| Buffalo Grove, Illinois
At his first meeting, he was just about to leave before going in, when someone stopped him
From the Streets of L.A.
April 2014
By:
Connie W.
| Fort Bragg, California
Sixteen years later, she has a roof over her head and a sober life
The Wild Adventure
February 2014
By:
Bridget R.
| Des Moines, Iowa
Life was a lot fuller when she began living in the solution and not the problem