The Right Thing to Do
April 2025
| Making Amends
By:
Paul C.
| Oceanside, California
With partners, employers, neighbors and friends, amends made his life so much better in entirely unexpected ways
Safeguards for Survival
October 1982
By:
E. E.
| Tulsa, Oklahoma
AA's Twelve Traditions are a powerful protection for the future
A Prescription for Sobriety
June 1945
Adding Up the Days
January 2026
| Stories for Day Counters
By:
Sue G.
| Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Afraid and confused, this newcomer didn’t want what we have at first. But luckily, she stuck with it
The High Cost of Sanity
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Lori M.
| Houston, Texas
Her third DUI in six weeks put her in a Texas prison for 20 years. Which is where she said: “I need help.”
Hanging with the Girls
March 2012
By:
Cheryl B.
| North Riverside, Illinois
She learned how to make and keep friends in AA
The Spiritual Side?
April 1983
By:
R. P.
| Bellevue, Nebraska
For this AA, the whole program is spiritual
Don't Be Afraid of the Steps
September 1977
By:
R. G.
| Fort Knox, Kentucky
According to the Big Book, they are the program
The Best Group
July 1970
By:
W. B.
| Lexington, Kentucky
With AA groups, as with everything else, home is where the heart is
Your Move - Responses from Readers on the Topic of "Online AA" from the May 1996 Grapevine
December 1996
By:
Anonymous
| Neosho, Missouri
Another Tool
The Children Say What A.A. Means to Them
December 1944
By:
Ed F.'s 18-year-old daughter, Joan
A.A.s Make Wonderful Fathers. . .
By The Grace Of God And AA
February 2017
In order to hide from the world she took her first drink at the age of seven and ended up living for months in a closet. But sobriety has changed all that. …
Early AA in the Cariboo Mountains
August 2011
By:
Buster H.
| British Columbia
A big game hunter accepts that he is powerless over alcohol and becomes the first member of AA in a remote area of British Columbia
The Twelve Steps Revisited/Step 9
August 1962
By:
J. E.
| Guilford, Connecticut
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
AA Around the World
December 1957
By:
Anon.
| Plymouth
AA AMBASSADOR <lbNews, comments and letters from and about AA's worldwide outposts and centers--gleaned from letters to the Grapevine and General Service Headquarters, and from the "AA Exchange Bulletin," published monthly by GSH