Quote June 16, 2014
“Alcoholics Anonymous has an answer to problems in sobriety, making sobriety, eventually, something wonderful instead of something that can drive people to drink.”
Tasmania, December 2006 “Solutions,” AA Grapevine
Grapevine Daily Quote March 25, 2019
“I’m better able to love people when the storm of my judgmental mind settles, when I understand and empathize rather than criticize and condemn.”
“The Fine Art of Listening,” September 2008, AA Grapevine
Quote March 25 2014
“I’m better able to love people when the storm of my judgmental mind settles, when I understand and empathize rather than criticize and condemn.”
“The Fine Art of Listening,” September 2008 AA Grapevine
Quote March 25, 2017
“I’m better able to love people when the storm of my judgmental mind settles, when I understand and empathize rather than criticize and condemn.”
September 2008 “The Fine Art of Listening” AA Grapevine
Uncomfortably numb
May 2011
By:
Margie S.
| Columbus, Georgia
She had to drink to keep running—only AA stopped her.
Who Is that Boy in the Painting?
January 2012
By:
David M.
| Toledo, Ohio
Lost in alcohol, a young man robs his own parents and can't believe who he's become
Riding the Rods
June 1990
Inside Job
July 2026
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Y.K.P.
| Agassiz, B.C.
How on earth could he get sober in a jail where everyone was getting wasted? It was tough, but he made a solitary decision
A Full Heart
July 2026
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Doug G.
| Fujisawa, Kanagawa
An AA interpreter shares about all the love he experienced at Japan’s 50th AA Anniversary
All Aboard
june 2026
| Young & Sober
By:
Definitely Steve
| Nashville, Tennessee
A longtimer recalls the time he had four months sober and was rescued by AA on a Caribbean cruise
Goodbye to the Bondage of Self
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By:
Peter A.
| West Simsbury, CT
Discovering that Power greater than ourselves
The God Paper
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By:
Tracy C.
| Green Bay, WI
Finding the true power of AA in acceptance
Keep Listening
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By:
David C.
| Estero., Fla.
Voices from the rooms that keep us sober
OMG We’re Broke!
July 2025
| AA Celebrates 90 Wonderful Years!
By:
Clyde M.
| Dallas, Texas
He had just gotten elected to be his group’s new treasurer when the terrible news came in. No money? How would they ever pay the rent?
From Saloon to Salon
March 2016
Getting sober was tough for a woman in 1949. But she had a knack for fixing hair
Sharp Decline
June 2015
By:
Donna G.
| Rochester Hills, Michigan
International success won't help when you can't get out of the bar
The Double Life of a Doctor
November 2014
By:
Anonymous
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
She was long practiced in the art of maintaining a façade, but the stakes were getting higher and higher
My Bulldog Brain
September 2014
By:
Susan W.
| Alameda, California
When she was able to let go of intellectual pride, she began to identify in the rooms
Sentenced to Loneliness
May 2008
By:
Anonymous
He wanted to be the first in all his life's activities, but he was last to acknowledge the harm alcohol did in his life.
Three Men AND a Wet Drunk
April 2008
By:
A.G.
| Tabernacle, New Jersey
An old-timer recalls her early days
Order Of The Court
November 2007
By:
Brian C.
| St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin
A judge starts the ball rolling