Digging The Steps
July 2025
| AA Celebrates 90 Wonderful Years!
By:
Anonymous
| Mason City, Iowa
Determined to do his Seventh Step, a member grabs his boots, bundles up and gives it his all
My Best Friend
March 2025
| Sober and Out
By:
L.G.
| Brooklyn, New York
Once alone and full of self-pity, she made a decision to let Step Three introduce her to a partner for life
Back in the Game
January 2025
| Spirituality and Prayer
By:
Carl S.
| Littleton, Colorado
His bottom literally began halfway up a mountain. With the love of AA and his family, he made it to the top
164 Pages of Hope
July 2024
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Melissa G.
| Ypsilanti, Michigan
For three years, all she had was a Big Book and a willing cellmate. Then one day, when the pandemic ended, she heard a call for meetings
The Best Medicine
April 2024
| Happy Birthday Big Book!
By:
Robert P.
| Amity, Oregon
His sponsor said if he read the book he probably wouldn’t drink. He was right. Now he studies it!
A Much Better View
April 2023
| AA & Families
By:
Donna G.
| San Diego, Calif.
With a little action and meditation, she can see the love, the hope, the gratitude and the trees
A Grateful And Blessed Alcoholic
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Debra U.
| Kansas City, MO
A family crisis leads to a lasting miracle
One Foot in Front of the Other
June 2021
| Dating & Relationships
By:
Bridget M.
| East Moriches, N.Y.
After months of isolation, members in Long Island band together to stay connected during COVID-19
See? I’m not an Alcoholic!
June 2021
| Dating & Relationships
By:
David R.
| Fillmore, Utah
He wasn’t about to stop drinking. Then one day a sober Navy buddy put him to the test
A Gentle Hand
April 2021
| Fun in Sobriety
By:
Kurt K.
| Lockport, N.Y.
A member shares a little advice he got long ago that just might have saved his life
Get out of your head
March 2021
| Making Amends
By:
Lisa J.
| New Hope, Pa.
Anger and sadness sent this newcomer mom right toward the liquor store.
Luckily, she knew what to do
Luckily, she knew what to do
Ready to Handle it
March 2021
| Making Amends
By:
Philip C.
| Louisville, Ky.
Though he’d made amends to his wife the best he could, one day while cleaning, he lifted a lid and found forgiveness and truth
They Held Me Accountable
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Ian H.
| Louisville, KY
Grapevine kept him coming back to his first home group—and showed him how much others appreciated their “meeting in print”
We keep in touch
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
By:
Nancy S.
| Renton, Wash.
From pay phones to cassette tapes to virtual meetings, she’s still happily doing whatever it takes
Watching my mouth
November 2020
| Our Twelve Traditions
By:
Gordon B.
| Edwardsville, Ill.
A member shares his thoughts about cussing in meetings and why he says things he doesn’t want to say
I Had to Sponsor a Real Kook
November 1983
By:
E. S.
But even under the most unusual circumstances, the program somehow came through - From the July 1972 Grapevine
Recipe for Sobriety
November 1981
By:
K. P.
At least three parts Tradition were necessary as secret ingredients - From the November 1963 Grapevine
Look Beyond Yourself
May 1973
By:
B. M.
| Saratoga, California
When self-forgetfulness occurs, "the spirit" takes over
The Eleventh Concept--part 2
October 1972
<emphasis type="italic">Bill W.'s</emphasis> Twelve Concepts for World Service
I Had to Sponsor a Real Kook
July 1972
By:
E. S.
| Brooklyn, New York
But even under the most unusual circumstances, the program somehow came through
One-shot Deal Or Constant Companion?
March 1972
By:
L. H.
| North Hollywood, California
The following nine-page section speaks to the question--Are AAs using the Big Book as much today as the early members did in the past?
Explaining the Unexplainable
August 1969
By:
G. N. G.
| Queens, New York
Speaking to interested civilian groups about AA is fraught with peril, frustration and reward
Past / Present / Future
July 1968
By:
G. N. G.
| Forest Hills, New York
. . . <emphasis type="italic">Thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool; and time, that takes survey of all the world, must have a Stop.</emphasis>"--Shakespeare
Out of a Drunken Home ... and into a Loving Fellowship
June 1967
By:
D. H.
| North Dakota
the story of a youngster's discovery of ALATEEN