The Gift of Gratitude
November 2022
| Fun in Sobriety
One way to keep a grateful heart is to remember what AA has given us. The following passages were selected from our vast Grapevine Story Archives, which goes back to 1944. Thank you for sharing your stories with us
Taking Calls for AA
September 2019
| Young & Sober
By:
John S.
| Kansas City, Mo.
Being on “the firing line” of service—and loving every minute of it
Dear Grapevine
January 2017
Dear Grapevine
October 2012
The Third Time Is the Charm
June 2011
By:
Cheryl B.
| North Riverside, Illinois
A young mother hits bottom and finds AA but learns through relapse that she still had to concede powerlessness
THE BROTHERHOOD
October 2009
By:
LUIS JOSE R.
| Lake Oswego, Ore.
Loud, Vulgar and joyous, a band of AA friends keeps a loner from slipping away
To The Gates Of Insanity
November 2007
By:
David G.
| Brawley, California
A very sick alcoholic finally surrenders
Safeguards for Survival
October 1982
By:
E. E.
| Tulsa, Oklahoma
AA's Twelve Traditions are a powerful protection for the future
Embracing Change and Tradition Five
A member applies her sense of this tradition to various AA customs
The Serenity Prayer
August 1968
By:
Bob N.
| Scarsdale, New York
The beginner's third question: What <emphasis type="underline">is</i> this thing called AA?
A River So Swift
June 2014
By:
Kathy M.
| California
She was swept along in a current of alcoholism until her 10-year-old daughter pleaded with her one night
At Home in the World
October 2013
A woman from the American South travels to Beijing and celebrates her AA birthday
A Long, Dry Drunk
February 2006
By:
Loren B.
| Bozeman, Montana
An alcoholic's suffering ends with a raised hand
A Matter of Pride
February 2004
By:
Craig M.
| Warrensburg, Missouri
He had to find his own way to sobriety
How AA Started in Brazil
October 1996
The following is an exchange of letters between the wife of an early AA member (she and her husband were Americans living in Rio de Janiero, Brazil), and the associate secretary of the AA Headquarters in New York.