Dreams and waterfalls
September 2017
By:
Anonymous
He was once so drunk, he couldn’t leave his dorm room. Now he’s seeing the world
Quote April 30, 2015
“Peace and enlightenment come when you stop evaluating in terms of good or bad and merely accept all of life as it is and try to learn from it.”
El Granada, Calif., March 1989 “A Program of Action,” The Best of the Grapevine, Volume 3
A Far Cry From Home
December 2006
By:
Jim M.
| West Park, New York
On his own in China, a member finds AA
I Was Choice No. 2
January 1969
By:
Anonymous
| California
Whether he's called first, second, or ninth, this circuit rider is twelfth-stepping all the way
So Worth Living
February 2024
| Getting Through Tough Times
By:
Sarah B.
| Sebastopol, California
After a car crash dealt her a traumatic brain injury, she kept close to the program, got involved in service and learned to ask for help
Paging Bill W. to Gate Seven
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Doug D.
| Orange County, CA
When “Friends of Bill” meet at the airport, both of them part a little more sober
Zooming in love
September 2021
| Young & Sober!
By:
Bill I.
| Marlton, N.J.
From totally different sides of the country, a “boy meets girl on AA campus” romance in tiny squares
My First Year Journey
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Robert B.
| Newtown Square, Pa.
Looking back on the year that transformed his life
Ask an AA If God Is Dead
October 1966
By:
South Carolina
| Columbia,
Recent theological publicity stimulated this AA's review of an important conviction
At No Cost to Anyone, Here Are Some Free Translations
September 1963
By:
J. W.
| River Edge, New Jersey
In the language of AA, some idioms may be confusing to the newcomer.
Strapping Myself In
April 2015
By:
Michael J.
| Albany, Oregon
The ups and downs of a super young AA
A brilliant addiction
January 2010
By:
TRACI R.
| Fredericksburg, Va.
A writer goes from having it all to the hard floor of a jail cell
A Psychiatrist's Appreciation of Alcoholics Anonymous
November 1998
By:
Adele E. Streeseman, M.D.
The AA program enables the withdrawn alcoholic to trust the mental therapist, thus hastening a return to sobriety--and sanity.
Self-pity Can Kill
February 1973
By:
J. W.
| Key West, Florida
We can weep, whine, or get drunk--or we can learn to accept
Out of Insanity - up to Love
February 1966
By:
Dick W.
| Van Nuys
An AA, now five years old, takes a hard look at the violent brat he was for forty-five years
A Psychiatrist's Appreciation of Alcoholics Anonymous
June 1960
By:
Adele E. Streeseman, M.D.
The AA program enables the withdrawn alcoholic to trust the mental therapist, thus hastening a return to sobriety--and sanity