Dear Grapevine
February 2020
| Tough Times
Queen of the Silver Dollar
February 2020
| Tough Times
Every evening at 9:15 a group of a half-dozen people would come in, grab a table and drink coffee. I became friends with them.
Cutting Back
February 2020
| Tough Times
Not only has he stopped slurring and weaving all over the yard, but he now has a much nicer lawn
Not My Finest Hour
February 2020
| Tough Times
A member says it’s OK to share that we’re not always grateful and that we’re not having a wonderful day
Tony Darryl Jan Joe & Nancy
February 2020
| Tough Times
How chairing in a phone meeting filled one member with joy as he made a bunch of new friends from Nevada to D.C.
Should we say it?
March 2019
| What’s On Your Mind?
A member who loves the Lord’s Prayer wonders if AA is the place to use it
Our troublesome friend
March 2019
| What’s On Your Mind?
A group in Georgia struggles with how to handle a most unruly member
A New—But the Same—Addiction
March 2019
| What’s On Your Mind?
He was a garden variety alcoholic, not a drug addict. Or so he thought
Being There
March 2019
| What’s On Your Mind?
She was there for her husband during a near-fatal illness—and the program was there for her
Making It Work
March 2019
| What’s On Your Mind?
Maintaining a fit spiritual condition helped her focus on herself when her marriage was falling apart. It also helped the marriage, as it turns out
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