Welcome To The Covid Unit
May 2021
| Our Twelve Steps
By:
Jodee P.C.
| Chicopee, Mass.
An essential worker shares about staying sane, sober and alive on the front lines
Sober In The Sixties
July 2006
By:
Fairleigh M.
| La Mesa, California
A long-timer talks about getting sober in her teens
Not My Finest Hour
February 2020
| Tough Times
By:
Brian R.
| Brentwood, Calif.
A member says it’s OK to share that we’re not always grateful and that we’re not having a wonderful day
Dear Grapevine
April 2019
| Relapse
20 reasons
December 2013
By:
Debi E.
| Springfield, Illinois
After 20 glorious sober years, a woman expresses her gratitude
ON THE SHORES OF THE AEGEAN
May 2009
By:
RODNEY N.
| Mountain Home, Idaho
A beacon of hope is lit in Turkey
At Sea on an Island in the Baltic
July 2005
By:
Anonymous
An AA from Sweden struggles to make a new group home
Painful ego-puncturing
October 2015
New in town, she dove into service and wanted a position. What she got was an opportunity to grow
A Place in the World
March 2014
By:
Vergil S.
| Warsaw
Living in a predominately white country overseas, an African American man discovers that he can feel at home in an AA meeting anywhere
TRADITION 6: A Common Sense Approach
June 2008
By:
Paul C.
| Oceanside, California
Inviting cooperation, avoiding affiliation
My Prickly Conscience Named Charlie
December 1960
By:
Anonymous
| Mt. Rainer, Maryland
He's diffident, lonely, hard to know. Yet his kindly understanding of other lonely people is enriching their lives
A Branch From the Vine
May 1954
By:
E.B.
| Granite Falls, Minnesota
from the groupvine<lbComments and suggestions
A Cold January Night
July 2014
By:
Gary G.
| New Jersey
The night that he tried to end his life would wind up being the night his life began again
A Father's Legacy
December 2013
Through the 12 Steps, she was able to forgive her father at the end of his life
Just Another Bozo on the Bus
August 2004
By:
Anonymous
Celebrating the ways we are all exactly alike
I Could Apply a Full Face of Makeup Without Ever Looking Myself in the Eye
February 1999
By:
Eileen K.
| Tustin, California
Magic Carpet
February 1974
By:
Ron
| Berkeley, California
A voyage of discovery--to find that we have loving friends all over the world
In and Out of the Dts
December 1973
By:
J. G. T.
| Negaunee, Michigan
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio--or--thank God we're sober!