From the Grass Roots
September 1957
By:
Harriet L.
| La Habra, California
CALLING ALL HAPPY HERETICS
Mail Call for All A.A.s at Home Or Abroad
July 1946
By:
J.W.C.
| Manhattan, New York
Silkworth Recordings
The Accidental Big Book
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Marc S.
| Waukesha, Wis
A Big Book handed to a lawyer years before he got sober turns out to be key to his recovery
It's Worth the Work
August 2024
| Dating & Relationships
By:
Doug M.
| Long Island, New York
Through years of sober experience, good and bad, he learned about love, faith and sharing the fun
The Beginning of Recovery
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Chris C.
| USS Emory S. Land
He was at sea, literally and figuratively, but found safe harbor in AA
Letting Go of the Golden Glow
April 2014
By:
Jerry F.
| Cerritos, California
Alcohol covered up a lot of his inner conflict but left wreckage in its wake. Sobriety enabled him to live a different life
A Day in the Park
December 2012
By:
Carol S.
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
After years of alcoholic hell, watching birds fly and flowers bloom doesn't seem so bad
To the Rescue
March 2011
By:
Amy M.
| Aurora, Colorado
Working the Steps again helped her see that she had made another member her Higher Power
The Man Who Wanted to Revise the Lord's Prayer
November 1976
By:
Dick W.
Change the Big Book? Change the program? No thanks, not me," says - From the August 1969 Grapevine
The First Meeting
January 1962
By:
H. W.
| Pleasantville, New York
was the difference between life and death
Mail Call for All A. A.s at Home Or Abroad
February 1947
By:
Mildred O.
| New York City
What Price Sobriety?
The Last Time I Saw My Daughter
February 2016
Getting sober with her child wasn't easy, but what happened after Mother's Day was almost more than she could bear
The "Cured" Alcoholic
February 1962
By:
L. B.
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Further proof that the first drink makes life unmanageable
The Day Hope Arrived
June 2025
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Jeffrey W.
| Oliver, British Columbia
Locked up, sick and detoxing, he was looking for something to read to cheer him up. What he found was a new life
Winnipeg Women Celebrate the Big Five-O
August 2003
By:
The Winnipeg Women's Group
| Winnipeg, Manitoba
In February 2003, the Winnipeg Women's Group in Winnipeg, Manitoba, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, making it, they've been told, the oldest women's group in Alcoholics Anonymous to function continuously for that length of time. --The Home Group<lbHe
Keeping Up with the Camel
June 1998
By:
Bill R.
| Mt. Vernon, Washington
This AA was helped by a lapel pin
The Twelve Steps Revisited/Step 7
April 1962
By:
J. E.
| Guilford, Connecticut
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings