Anne Smith
June 1950
(March 21st, 1881--June 1st, 1949)<lb"She greeted strangers, and listened for their names.
What Happens Here
December 2024
| Remote Communities and Sober Holidays
By:
Billy G.
| New York, New York
Learning to Live
June 2015
By:
Ronnie B.
| Riverview, Florida
How AA helped one long-time inmate stay sober in prison and chart a new path
Son of Tall Man
February 1976
By:
Maynard B.
| Fairfield, Connecticut
An American Indian shares his strength, hope, and experience
Hair-shirt Humility
February 1972
By:
J. W.
| Key West, Florida
Need we be as compulsive about guilt as we were about booze?
Amazing Grace
November 2025
| Early days of AA
By:
Snow P.
| Boca Raton, Florida
On her 25th anniversary, a return to her very first meeting gave her a cherished moment she’ll never forget
10 years of love
February 2022
| Getting Through Tough Times
By:
Dorothy E.
| Ypsilanti, Mich.
Sponsoring someone takes on a posturing of offering and accepting. How fortunate it is that AA gives us these relationships to ensure that we’re never alone.
Boy meets girl
August 2021
| Seniors in AA
By:
Carol V.
| Pensacola, Fla.
This longtime member’s spouse just passed away. So did his. But through their grief, they both reached out. Now what?
Just in time
July 2021
| The Annual Prison Issue
By:
Tod C.
| Chino, Calif.
I felt goose bumps on my skin. I believe my Higher Power spoke to me that morning with that Grapevine magazine. God was telling me, “I’m here, man. I never left. I’ve been here all along.”
Jump start
April 2017
By:
Corey F.
| Soledad, California
The information he got in treatment about the program started this young man’s AA engine and put his sobriety in high gear
At Wit’s End
January 2025
| Spirituality and Prayer
At Wit’s End
November 2017
| Issue Title Here
You Want Me to Hug Who?
September 2004
By:
Pat S.
| St. Charles, Missouri
The whys and wherefores of hugging