Books Written by Mel B. and Articles that Mel B. wrote and submitted to The A.A. Grapevine Magazine Our Meeting in Print, for publication About...
AA and Jesus By Mel B. How Ancient Spiritual Teachings are Linked to the Inspirational Program of Alcoholics Anonymous On my way to a favorite...
Love’s Ingredients By Mel B. I’ve sometimes heard that alcoholics and other addicts are usually looking for love in the wrong places. Dr. Bob S,...
Let Go And Let God By Mel B. The Anxieties that Accompany Many Problems Besides Drinking Often Respond to Handling the AA Way Volume 21...
The Search For Self-Approval By Mel B. How the AA Program Deals With Our Need for Self-Approval and Recognition by Others Volume 24 Issue 5...
AAs Should Be Honest About Sex Problems By Mel B. One Member’s Plea for More Widespread Discussion and Understanding of a Seldom-Mentioned Subject in the...
Gossip By Mel B. Our Primary Purpose is not Enhanced by Loose Talk about Each Other Volume 30 Issue 12 May 1974 THERE’S BEEN a...
Beware the Sound of Blaring Trumpets By Mel B. The Spiritual Basis of Anonymity Gives Sense and Direction to Its Practice Volume 34 Issue 12...
Thoughts Are Things By Mel B. . . .If I Wished to Change My Surroundings, I Had to Change My Thinking First. Volume 20 Issue...
Those Unremembered Memories By Mel B. Volume 55 Issue 9 February 1999 Some AA members like to say that if you can’t remember your last...
Those Lost Years By Mel B. They Can Yield a Profit Today Volume 20 Issue 12 May 1964 IS there an alcoholic alive who hasn’t...
The Will And The Way By Mel B. “The good or ill of man lies within his own will.” –Epictetus Volume 23 Issue 9 February...
The One-Minute Solution By Mel B. Volume 59 Issue 1 June 2002 We hear at meetings that gratitude will help eliminate self-pity and resentment, as...
The Green Demon By Mel B. Jealousy is Poisonous — But this AA Member Found an Effective Antidote Volume 18 Issue 12 May 1962 I...
The Dreamer and the Dawn By Mel B. OR, MOVIES, ANYONE? Volume 12 Issue 4 September 1955 IT is more than incidental to this story...
The Broken Pulley By Mel B. Volume 49 Issue 1 June 1992 Some years ago, I realized that much of the great staying power of...
That Day on the Bridge By Mel B. My Thoughts Were on a Collision Course With the Oncoming Train (yet all my troubles were within...
Step Over To The Nearest Barroom By Mel B. Volume 55 Issue 10 March 1999 Many months ago, the cover of a national magazine leaped...
Something About the Eyes By Mel B. AA Members Speak Both with Words and Through “The Windows of the Soul” Volume 20 Issue 7 December...
Requiem For A Resentment By Mel B. Volume 54 Issue 2 July 1997 I was surprised to learn recently that I may be a party...
Put Yourself In A New Frame Of Mind By Mel B. That Old Escape Feeling can Work for You in Sober Living Volume 21 Issue...
Night Owl Gets Diploma By Mel B. A 1941 High-School Dropout Makes it at Last– and Has some Fun into the Bargain Volume 24 Issue...
My Name Is. . .Melvin By Mel B. And I Found the Big Book “Out on the Hill With those Crazy People” Volume 20 Issue...
The AA Tom Swifty By Mel B. Volume 20 Issue 3 August 1963 If you’ve noticed cross currents of wind sweeping in every direction recently,...
The Twelve Symptoms of My Alcoholism By Mel B. How can we really define and diagnose alcoholism? It isn’t always easy. As far back...
AA’s Roots In The Oxford Group BY T. WILLARD HUNTER, Claremont, Calif. With Assistance from Mel B., Toledo, Ohio (Mr. Hunter, a nonalcoholic friend of...
Getting Along With Yourself And Others By Mel B. You Can Make yourself miserable stewing over real or fancied wrongs — but there’s a better...
Easy By Mel B. A “Most Unforgettable Person” in AA Volume 29 Issue 3 August 1972 IT OFTEN SEEMS to me that the Grapevine should...
Cosmic Consciousness By Mel B. An Examination of the Profound Spiritual Experience that Illuminates and Changes Many Lives Volume 32 Issue 12 May 1976 ALCOHOLICS...
Beyond The Self By Mel B. There is Something Better to be Found, But One has to Give Up to Find It Volume 27 Issue...
El Sombrero By Mel B. The Story of a Hat and of Release from Guilt Volume 30 Issue 4 September 1973 ONE EVENING at a...
Anger!… A Symptom Of Wrong Thinking By Mel B. Anger!. . . A Symptom of Wrong Thinking Volume 30 Issue 8 January 1974 AT ONE...
Humility By Mel B. A Word Whose Meaning Causes Arguments, but a Quality We All Aspire to when We Understand It Volume 30 Issue 11...
More Power To You By Mel B. Can We Really Get Help in Our Daily Living from a “Higher Power”? Volume 22 Issue 6 November...
Inventory Is Today By Mel B. Volume 13 Issue 10 March 1957 AFTER WE HAVE MANAGED to establish a time gap between the present and...
First Law By Mel B. Life in a Whirl? Here’s an Antidote for Disorder Volume 22 Issue 3 August 1965 THE simple act of threading...
Ebby By Mel B. Ebby had been enabled to bring me the gift of grace because he could reach me at depth through the language...
Why God Says No Volume 14 Issue 9 February 1958 THE FIRST REAL AWARENESS, for most of us, of the tremendous potential continuing assistance from...
Why I Keep Coming Back By Mel B. Volume 57 Issue 12 May 2001 Most people have a few days in their past that stand...
The Serenity Prayer By Mel B. How One Member Applies it to His Daily Living Volume 29 Issue 7 December 1972 WHEN I WAS growing...
Learning to Grow in Self-Esteem By Mel B. A Low Opinion of Self Drove Us into Many of Our Difficulties Volume 31 Issue 9 February...
Rejection By Mel B. Volume 36 Issue 12 May 1980 AT ONE OF our noon discussion meetings here in Toledo, a middle-aged man who was...
Is Public Controversy Ever Justified? By Mel B. What Should We Do When Outside Theories Conflict with AA Experience? Volume 33 Issue 8 January 1977...
Power To Solve Your Problems By Mel B. The Fearful Man Who Runs Away from Life is a Slave; the Free Man Can Roll with...
From Perfectionism to Perfection By Mel B. An Ex-Perfectionist Finds a New Definition for the Goal that Once Stayed Beyond His Reach Volume 25 Issue...
People and Principles By Mel B. Personalities Change and People are Often Wrong, but Principles Remain Constant Volume 28 Issue 5 October 1971 OUR FELLOWSHIP...
9th Step By Mel B. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. – This...
Mental Depression–Unnecessary Evil By Mel B. What is There to Help the Sober AA Who Puts in Dull, Dispirited Hours and Days? Volume 22 Issue...
Is That Resentment Necessary? By Mel B. Maybe You’re Hanging on To a Few Because You Feel They’re Justified. Take Another Look . . ....
Let’s Talk About Material Things By Mel B. It’s True that Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness but We Do Have Responsibilities in This World Volume 27...
