All This Reading at AA Meetings--isn't It a Bad Trend?
July 1968
By:
Phill P.
| Stanton, California
More and more groups read more and more things at the start of meetings. Why use precious <emphasis type="underline">talking</i> time this way?
Youth in A.A.
June 1960
The average age of today's new AA member is dropping as more and more young people seek help--before they hit bottom
Showing Up
September 2025
| Stories of Gratitude
By:
Nancy K.
| Galt, California
As a newcomer, she was full of rage. But someone took her to do corrections service and her life changed
Making it Happen
March 2025
| Sober and Out
By:
Karl M.
| Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
A member shares how he and his AA friends got an LGBTQ+ meeting started in their small Pennsylvania town
Love at First Sight
August 2024
| Dating & Relationships
By:
Rachel B.
| Kew Gardens, New York
She had five months, did a few Steps and was ready to date again! What could possibly go wrong?
Saying yes
April 2022
| What's On Your Mind?
By:
Kenneth K.
| Brooklyn, N.Y.
A sponsee he’ll never forget taught him something he’ll always remember
Keeping It Real
July 2021
| The Annual Prison Issue
By:
Kevin M.
| Connell,, Wash.
After COVID shuts down all meetings, he stays sober in prison, writing his sponsor, praying and helping others as best he can
Step One: My Story
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| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Alex M.
| Louisville, Ky
A physician battles alcoholism to return to his patients and recover his life
An Australian’s Recovery
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By:
John W.
| Canberra, Australia
An atheist and a humanist takes a “leap of faith” into AA
My Story
May 2019
| Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
By:
Kate H.
| Ojai, Calif.
It took years of drinking and denial, but one spring day, she picked up the phone and made the call that changed her life
She made the shot
March 2019
| What’s On Your Mind?
By:
Judy M.
| Royersford, Pennsylvania
She left basketball behind for the drinking game—but eventually scored a win
The home inside us
March 2018
By:
Rick S.
| Lancaster, Pennsylvania
How two Ricks on very different paths found peace and friendship on the same road
Living Proof
July 2017
By:
Chris M.
| Brookhaven, Georgia
How a good kid descended into a life of liquor and jails and found a new way to live in prison
Going Down
June 2016
By:
Steve B.
| Hopewell Junction, N.Y.
He was escorted to the elevators the day he was fired. Then booze escorted him to AA
Not Just Another Bender
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By:
Diana G.
| Woodland Hills, Calif.
After a painful drinking career, she discovered an “ordinary, yet extraordinary” life in AA
From the Streets to the Rooms
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By:
Jennifer M.
| Mobile, Ala
Homeless and at her first AA meeting, she was hoping to get kicked out—until she read the Steps on the wall…
Spiritual Life Is Not A Theory
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By:
Christy O.
| Ocala, Fla.
Viewing herself through a brand new lens brought her spirituality into sharp focus
A grateful holiday
January 2020
| Spiritual Awakenings
By:
John K.
| Carleton Place, Ontario
Though not the fancy getaway he was used to, the journey this year was to himself
Alive, Sober and Free
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
By:
Travis S.
| Austin, Texas
Facing life in prison, he reads the poem that sets him on the path towards recovery and freedom
AA Brings Hope
July 2019
| The Prison Issue
By:
Glenn P.
An AA brings the message, and a “vision of hope,” to inmates in a county jail
I don't work here
June 2019
| Letting Go of Resentments
By:
John G.
| New York, New York
While taking meetings into a hospital detox, a member finds it’s important to say that he’s just another drunk
How 14 groups grew to 22
November 2018
By:
Frank S.
| Los Angeles, California
In 1944, AA’s cofounder, Bill W., swings through California to lend a helping hand to the new group
The Dry Drunk Waltz
November 2018
By:
Julie H.
She learned the dance of anger, frustration and denial from her father, but replaced it with the sweeter music of AA
What Happened
August 2017
By:
James O. Lorraine
| Port Elizabeth
Detoxing in the hospital after a lifetime of drinking, an alcoholic receives four visitors who bring him the gift of life and sobriety
Traveling To Sobriety
May 2017
Her job takes her around the country, but wherever she lands, AA is there
Locked Up, But Finally Free
April 2017
He committed the crime while sober, and now had to do the time. How would he face it without drinking?
Hope
April 2017
During the course of her drinking career, she thought she was “not your typical alcoholic,” but one last relapse finally breaks through her denial
The Permanent Visitor Comes Home
March 2017
Coming up on a year, a traveling newcomer arrives back to his home group to find an unexpected gift