A Day Without Regrets
October 1989
By:
Bernice M.
| Los Gatos, California
Step Ten - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Finding a God of Our Understanding
October 1975
By:
Teet" C.
| North Hollywood, California
An agnostic reviews the stages by which he came to believe
Who, Me?
September 1968
By:
D. B. M.
| Akron, Ohio
If you're drinking too much, but think your life is still manageable because you're a top executive of a good-sized company, read this and see if you don't agree that it just plain makes sense to quit while you've still got some chips left
A desperate dad
November 2018
By:
Jeremy V.
| Mesa, Arizona
Trying to manage his drunken nights was taking its toll. How would he ever be a good father?
Taught me to love
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
By:
Lisa C.
| Portland, Oregon
A homecoming queen, brought down by liquor, reconnects with her family and learns to live again
I know, I’ve been There
December 2016
By:
Doug T.
| Wichita, Kansas
On a 12th Step call at a remote Kansas farm, three men learn that the language of the heart can come through a pen
Attica's Beacon
June 2014
By:
John L.
| Attica, New York
A prisoner finds his shining light in one of the longest-running prison groups in the nation
At Wit's End
December 2018
| Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities
Alcoholism At Large
May 2017
No Such Thing As a Bad Meeting!
February 1950
By:
M.T.G.
| Baltimore, Maryland
arriving by leaps at a considered opinion
Slow motion train wreck
August 2009
By:
STEVE W.
| Westminster, Colo.
After years on the run, an alcoholic comes to the end of the line
Who Would Ever Have Imagined?
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Lori L.
| Indianapolis, Ind.
She thought she had it all, but without sobriety it meant nothing
Coming In At An Older Age
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Gary D.
| Edgewater, Fla.
He’d made a lot of “fresh starts”—but the one that stuck was coming into AA
Lost and found at sea
November 2021
| Prayer and Meditation
By:
D. T.
| Billings, Mont.
Her anger nearly sent her overboard. But pausing to meditate put her back on calm waters
Chain Reaction
December 2020
| Remote Communities + Sober Holidays
By:
Butch M.
| Santee, Calif.
In Twelfth Step work, sometimes we throw a stone, making ripples that keep on going in ways we can’t imagine
My Love Affair With Booze
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Bill C.
| Okeechobee, Fla.
It was his first love, but not his last, thanks to AA
Pineapple and Me
February 2015
By:
Ted M.
| Miami, Florida
Some of the things he lost in his drinking days came back in abundance after he got sober
Remembrance of Things Past
September 2014
By:
Bob T.
| Waynesburg, Pennsylvania
All the siblings would find their way to the rooms of AA
Sober Wheels
September 2013
By:
William W.
| Jasper, Indiana
A newcomer gets a surprise when he buys a car to get to meetings