One Car at a Time
January 2016
A newcomer learns that when cravings hit, sometimes the best thing to do is grab a bucket
Put Some Laughter in Your Sobriety
September 1969
By:
L. H.
| Cleveland, Ohio
We're well on the road to recovery when we learn to laugh at ourselves
Dear Grapevine
April 2021
| Fun in Sobriety
It Wasn’t Always Like That
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Maria N.
| Roosevelt Island, NY
Fried eggs are just breakfast to some people—but a sober revelation to her
Dear Grapevine
January 2020
| Spiritual Awakenings
A bunch of drunks
November 2018
By:
Anonymous
How a couple lucked out by living around the corner from Manhattan’s 24th street clubhouse
MAASH
October 2017
By:
Peter G.
| San Antonio, Texas
At a base in Massachusetts, a medical officer steps up to help his chaplain and it becomes a win-win for everyone
Zipped up tight
September 2016
For a long time, she needed her leather jacket for armor. Now she was beginning to thaw
Dear Grapevine
September 2015
Sober in Key West
October 2013
By:
John T.
| Key West, Florida
He went south to party hard, but his HP had a much better plan
Tough Love
December 1978
By:
C. T.
| Wenatchee, Washington
They said there were no have-tos, but a lot of you'd-betters!
Inner Story
August 1975
By:
P. M.
| Greenwich, Connecticut
The ravages of alcoholism cannot be measured in pints or quarts
Steady Girl!
November 1962
By:
J. G.
| New York, New York
Try these tested, proved methods for acquiring simulated stability.
At Wit’s End
February 2026
| Getting Through Tough Times
Time to check out
October 2020
| Money and Sobriety
By:
Definitely Steve
| Nashville, Tenn.
“It’s progress, not perfection.” If you see me “in action” at a grocery store, please, I beg you, don’t tell my sponsor how I acted.
17 Years Of Hope
June 2020
| The Annual Prison Issue
By:
Tess M.
| Kansas
We’ve discussed Steps, resentments, solutions, Traditions, bills, goals and God. We’ve sometimes even discussed making desserts.
Practicing Principles
January 2019
| Stories for Day Counters!
By:
Alan S.
| Rio Rancho, N.M.
Pausing, praying, talking—a time-honored way to overcome anger, fear and resentment
A Tale of Two Pennies
May 2012
By:
Jill F.
A member of AA contrasts what it is like now and what it was like then