8th Step
January 1971
By:
F. M.
| New Canaan, Connecticut
Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. - This series on the Twelve Steps is written by twelve members of A A, each interpreting one of the Steps as he sees it.
Landon
March 2025
| Sober and Out
By:
Landon C.
| Greensboro, North Carolina
This trans member drank to feel OK. Then one day, with outside help and AA, he discovered a whole new life
Slow Learners and Sobriety
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Doug F.
| Palmer, Alaska
The compelling story of a man who couldn’t get it right—and then did
Finding myself
January 2019
| Stories for Day Counters!
By:
Tereson D.
| New Orleans, Louisiana
An emotional journey to find her birth mother revealed a beautiful truth of her own
Sober Sailor
August 2011
By:
Tommy C.
| Port Angeles, Washington
A seafaring man finds sobriety and the greatest adventure of his life in AA
He Was My Favorite Sponsor
March 1982
By:
E. S.
| Manhattan, New York
. . . And on the following pages four more AAs tell about sponsoring and being sponsored
Dear God. . .
July 1973
By:
Anonymous
| Connecticut
A personal conversation with the Higher Power of one AA's understanding
Sometimes Quickly Sometimes Slowly
September 2022
| Young & Sober
By:
Alison H.
| Warwick, R.I.
With surrender and action, the Ninth Step Promises came true. But it’s a process, she says. You can’t just flip a switch
Big, Beautiful & Wild
December 2016
By:
Brian M
| Portchester, New York
With grizzly bears and bighorn sheep for neighbors, how was he ever going to stay sober?
An Unmade Bed
April 2011
By:
Jeanne R.
| Monaca, Pennsylvania
Sometimes a slip starts in the subtlest ways
AA at Work. . .or at Leisure
July 1953
By:
Bob
| Troy, New York
The Grapevine is publishing the following article as "one man's opinion," in the belief that the general subject of friendship for "visiting firemen" (on or off the beam) is a matter of importance and interest to the Fellowship as a whole. We invite comme