The Experiment
January 2024
| Emotional Sobriety
By:
Jeri W.
| Yukon, Oklahoma
To help with Step One, they suggested she try some controlled drinking. So she did. Let’s see how it went
Dear Grapevine
April 2023
| AA & Families
Can’t Drink Away Grief
November 2022
| Fun in Sobriety
By:
Tommy G.
| Staten Island, N.Y.
A construction worker shares his journey through terrible loss and how the sobriety he built held
Borrowing God
June 2022
| Stories by Longtimers!
By:
E.A.
| Northampton, Mass.
Every day she prayed to Kate’s God, not knowing if it would work.
Then one day, while looking at a beautiful sunrise, she knew
Then one day, while looking at a beautiful sunrise, she knew
Right in the Middle
January 2022
| Beginners
By:
Peggy S.
| Belleville, N.J
In Aruba for her granddaughter’s wedding, a newcomer uses every tool she has to surround herself with AA
Seemingly Miraculous
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
By:
Bob S.
| Eureka, Calif.
In a long life of sobriety the difficult challenges do come and go, but the good times are so worth it all
Dear Grapevine
December 2020
| Remote Communities + Sober Holidays
Halting Words
April 2020
| Home Group
By:
Peter A.
| Medford, Ore.
Who knows when contact with something bigger will come? For one man, it was in his morning AA circle
With lots of love
April 2020
| Home Group
By:
Jerry A.
| Gloucester, Va.
When a member loses his sight,
what does his home group do?
Why, give him a job, of course!
what does his home group do?
Why, give him a job, of course!
Dear Grapevine
September 2019
| Young & Sober
A new freedom
July 2019
| The Prison Issue
By:
Jack R.
| Marianna, Florida
When the right guy showed up to help him through the Fifth Step, his life changed forever
What my brother taught me
July 2019
| The Prison Issue
By:
Nancy McCarthy
| St. Louis, Missouri
A probation and parole officer learns to love AA from the man whose calls she dreaded most
Dear Grapevine
October 2018
The stranger
October 2018
By:
Gerry R.
| Clancy, Montana
On a quiet road, an alcoholic encounters a man who gives him the faith to sing at the top of his lungs
Dear Grapevine
January 2018
| Sponsorship
Our hometown
March 2010
By:
MITCH M.
| Harlem, N.Y.
At a community event in Harlem, members set up a Public Information table
New GSB head named
July 2009
President of General Theological Seminary chosen during annual General Service Conference
A GOD OF MY UNDERSTANDING
April 2009
By:
Judy R.
| Peoria, Arizona
Agnostic as a beginner, she keeps her faith private
Life Without The Fall
October 2006
By:
Karen K.
| Soldiers Grove, Louisiana
She changed her thinking and changed her life
Forgiving God
January 2006
By:
Fran J.
| San Rafael, California
When childhood tragedy creates a barrier to faith
Sounds of Silence
April 2004
By:
Jean C.
| Eugene, Oregon
They can be heard anytime the bondage of self drops away
Make 'Em Laugh
August 2003
By:
Mary O.
| Bokeelia, Florida
An old sobersides falls in love with laughter
The Courage to Come Back
July 2000
By:
Randy K.
| Dallas, Texas
This AA found himself at Dr. Bob's doorstep.
