From the Grass Roots
November 1953
By:
W. E. B.
| West Springfield, Massachusetts
ENOUGH ABOUT SLIPS!
Mail Call for All A. A.s at Home Or Abroad
May 1948
By:
Fred McE.
| Philadelphia, Mississippi
Where Would I Be?
Mail Call for All A. A.s at Home Or Abroad
July 1947
By:
J. O'D.
| Seattle, Washington
Guides, Only
Mail Call for All A.A.s at Home Or Abroad
October 1946
By:
Bill T.
| Indianapolis, Indiana
Let's Not Oversell
“Come with me to the Nudist Colony”
April 2025
| Making Amends
By:
B.L.
| San Francisco, California
While making amends she asked her daughter how to make things right. Be careful what you ask for
The Program at Work
January 2012
By:
Marc D.
He turned the loss of his job into a new opportunity with the tools of AA
The Threat of the Twelve Steps
October 1965
By:
Anon
| Vermont
We went to extremes in drinking, why not in working the program?
The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
September 1964
By:
V. B.
| Virginia
Or, how to get back your right to disagree
Through the Starting Gate
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
S.S.
| Bushkill, Pa.
She discovers gratitude—and strength in numbers—in the program
The Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back
January 2020
| Spiritual Awakenings
By:
Debra B.
| Fontana, Calif.
Having to drink her coffee through a straw didn’t mean she was alcoholic. Did it?
The corner
August 2017
By:
Chuck B.
| Hillsboro, New Mexico
The comfort he gave a deathrow prisoner for a crime committed in a blackout changed his life forever
Getting Past the Denial
July 2011
By:
Donna M.
Seeing her best friend get sober, she could no longer pretend that her drinking wasn't a problem
Two People Speaking the Same Language
He was able to connect with people in AA despite his Asperger's
Smile for Mickey
November 2013
By:
Larry H.
| Flagstaff, Arizona
From childhood on, he never fit in the picture, until he got to AA
The Perfect Interview
January 2018
| Sponsorship
By:
Adam A.
| Cordova, Tennessee
Bottle down, tie on, all ready to go. He was going to get this job. He just knew it. So why was everyone staring at him?
Weeding Out the Crabgrass
August 1984
By:
A. B.
| San Diego, California
Step Four - It's an individual program, and on the pages that follow, four AAs describe their personal approaches to this vital Step and tell us how working it helped their sobriety