How AA Started in Brazil
October 1996
The following is an exchange of letters between the wife of an early AA member (she and her husband were Americans living in Rio de Janiero, Brazil), and the associate secretary of the AA Headquarters in New York.
Sober Mother
August 1977
By:
S. B.
| North Hatley, Quebec
Children do forgive, and love and respect can be restored
To Fetch a Pail of What?
May 1977
By:
J. G. T.
| Negaunee, Michigan
Smiling bravely through the pain of shattered childhood illusions, this writer helps us face up to reality. . .
Where Will Power Comes In
May 1962
By:
Bill
The following is Bill's answer to a letter asking about the role of the will power in staying sober.--ED.
Sometimes Miracles Happen
December 2025
| Sober Holidays & Remote Communities
By:
Anonymous
| Rocky River, Ohio
A central office volunteer tries to help a liver patient find the AA path with a lot of love and hope
Letter of Hope from a Tribal Jail
July 2025
| AA Celebrates 90 Wonderful Years!
By:
Samantha W.
| Quinault Indian Nation, Washington
Thanks to outside volunteers and Grapevine, an incarcerated woman in Washington celebrates a year of sobriety
Icing on the Cake
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Anonymous
| Phoenix, AZ
She has spent her sobriety working tirelessly to bring the word of AA inside prisons. Then, one day, she received an unexpected gift
The Hummingbird
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Ann P.
| Scottsdale, Ariz.
It took a trapped and fragile creature to remind her that trust was essential to her sobriety
Piggly Wiggly
May 2017
By:
Charlie W.
| California
Even as a kid, this small-town alcoholic couldn’t stop once he started. Now he can’t get enough of AA
Dear Grapevine
January 2013
Just a Nice Lady Who Drank Too Much
September 2011
By:
Barbara C.
| Northport, Florida
That's what she thought of her drinking until she went to her first AA meeting
What We Were Like
December 1991
By:
Johnny B.
| Amarillo, Texas
Fragments of AA History - AA Beginnings in Amarillo
Of Love and Forgiveness
July 1985
By:
C. C.
| West Palm Beach, Florida
How can we make amends to someone who has died?
Balance
May 1976
By:
D. B.
| Gulfport, Florida
When egoism becomes the motivation for hyperactivity in AA, it's time to take an inventory
Operation Acceptance: Moving from Rage to Letting Go
April 2005
By:
Anonymous
| O'Fallon, Illinois
Lesson Learned
August 2024
| Dating & Relationships
By:
Anonymous
| New York, New York
He found out the hard way to set romantic boundaries before the sunsets and ice cream arrive
Finally Free
July 2024
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Andrea N.
| Lakewood, Colorado
Once deemed a “menace to society,” she got sober in jail, did her time and is now going back in to help others
Active Duty
August 2023
| AA in the Military
By:
David D.
| Largo, Florida
A military dad has two jobs to do. And now that he’s sober he gets to show up for both
Getting used to a new town
August 2022
| Sober Travel
By:
S.H.
| Virginia
After a stressful move, a member has to think out of the box to adjust to a brand-new home group
A to Zzzzz
January 2019
| Stories for Day Counters!
By:
Donna B.
| Pulaski, Virginia
She found a dreamy way to get both gratitude and sleep and not have to count those shaggy sheep
Dear Grapevine
March 2017
Dear Grapevine
February 2017