Dear Grapevine

December 2018 | Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities

Letter from the Editor

December 2018 | Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities

The Moment

November 2018
When she found herself behind bars, she decided the only way to happiness and sobriety was complete honesty

Thanks, I See the Light

November 2018
He’d quit drinking before, without a problem. Why not now?

A Grateful Heart

November 2018
Nearly 30 years later, a grateful alcoholic reflects on the experience of getting sober young

The False Promise of Alcohol

November 2018
One alcoholic enumerates the promises that kept her captive to alcohol, and the Promises that resulted when she was set free

Social Workers Do Not Drive Porsches

November 2018
With every stop this alcoholic took into the land of “more, more, more,” he grew further away from his spiritual self

A Day of Love, Service and Turkey

November 2018
A group anniversary is an opportunity to celebrate Thanksgiving early—and to give thanks to AA through service

The Dry Drunk Waltz

November 2018
She learned the dance of anger, frustration and denial from her father, but replaced it with the sweeter music of AA

Dreaming About Becoming

November 2018
AA freed the woman inside her and gave her a chance to become the person she always wanted to be

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