Web Exclusive: Real Friends
May 2011
By:
Rick R.
| Poway, California
How an AA member’s friendships became more than just golf buddies.
WALKING TWO PATHS
October 2009
By:
BECA L.
| West Plains, Mo.
A woman with Native-American roots seeks her 'pack'
A SIMPLE DIRECTION
May 2009
By:
ROBERT H.
| Nashville, Tennessee
How it Works," heard for the first time, is a lifeline
Music, Money & Free Drinks
March 2024
| Spanish-Speaking AA Members
By:
Paty
| Los Angeles, California
Once she started drinking, the party took off. She just didn’t know how to stop
Knock Knock Who’s There?
July 2023
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Michael K.
| Kelowna, British Columbia
He had nurtured this resentment about Jack for years. Now it was time to make face-to- face amends. He was ready
Rough Days
March 2022
| Emotional Sobriety
By:
Chad P.
| St. Louis, Mo.
When life gets tough in sobriety, he remembers to lean into the Fellowship, speak up and keep his faith
Only One Solution
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Janine R.
| Sylmar, Calif.
Her active alcoholism kicked off with a beer at the student union and ended with a desperate plea for help from within an abandoned building
Sweet Number 20
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Eric G.
| Delray Beach, Fla.
Revisiting two decades of sobriety, he truly understands that “most good ideas are simple”
What a lift?
July 2019
| The Prison Issue
By:
José M.
| Anthem, Arizona
A ride up the mountain with his AA friends takes a serious turn, but delivers a memorable surprise
While I Was in Prison
April 2012
By:
C.T.
| North Carolina
Literature and letters helped this prisoner find AA and start a sober life
Keep on Trucking
July 2011
By:
Randy N.
| California
On the border of Nevada and California, a trucker threw out his last stash of alcohol on his way to an AA meeting
My Gratitude Family
April 2004
By:
Steve L.
| Lisbon, Wisconsin
He met them at a moment of crisis, when he was halfway between lost and found
Flyboy, Businessman, Alcoholic
April 2003
By:
Don S.
| Fredericksburg, Texas
Which hero would he be today?
Acceptance
February 1983
By:
E. B.
| Dover, Delaware
She finally stopped blaming people, places, and things for her drinking