Recovering From Fear and Resentment
September 2002
By:
Ernest S.
| York Harbor, Maine
One Alcoholic's Story
QYPAA Casts a Wide Net
September 2002
People
March 1971
. . . many streams of influence and many people, some of them nonalcoholics, had helped, by the Grace of God, to achieve AA's purpose." Bill in <emphasis type="italic">AA Comes of Age</emphasis>
Backyard Bowery
June 2019
| Letting Go of Resentments
By:
Steve S.
| Manhasset, New York
As a boy, he’d seen men drunk on the street and wondered how they got there. Well, he found out
From AA's Scrapbooks: 1940
September 1957
In Shambles
April 2020
| Home Group
By:
Betsy S.
| Tucson, Ariz.
At four months sober, she had no money—not even for toilet paper. Thankfully, she had a sponsor
My Personal Journey To Recovery
September 2017
By:
Vanessa D.
| Milwaukee, Wis.
She carried a handbag full of miniature bottles and even the dog knew she was drinking! With grace, humor and honesty, one alcoholic tells of her battle to get sober
Janet’s Story
November 2014
By:
Janet W.
| Los Angeles, California
She was supposed to be a missionary, but instead she discovered alcohol
Prison politics
December 2010
By:
WAYNE D.
| Edgefield, S.C.
If you think your group's business meetings are tense, try having one behind bars
Reasonable Fear
June 1982
By:
D. K.
| Naples, Florida
It keeps our memories green and our hearts grateful
Hope nobody sees me!
December 2018
| Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities
By:
Definitely Steve
| Nashville, Tennessee
A member in Tennessee shares his thoughts about the importance of anonymity
AA'S Message Gets Through
March 1970
HI, WADE!
October 2010
By:
JOE H.
| Vancouver, British Columbia
At a mixed party, AAs break their own anonymity
AA'S 35th Anniversary International Convention July 3-5, 1970, at Miami Beach
October 1970
By:
L. H.
| North Hollywood, California
How It Seemed to One Biased Alcoholic Observer
A Place to Fit In
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Sandy L.
| Douglassville, Pa.
Beginning with her first drunk at the age of eight, she struggled to find the place where she truly belonged
The End of a Sad Soap Opera
February 2012
By:
LaGene W.
| New York, New York
With her life in shambles and knowing nothing of AA, she remembered a sober character on a tv show and picked up the phone