Dear Grapevine
January 2015
Thoughts on the Third Tradition
December 2014
By:
Mark L.
| Bellingham, Washington
A member explains the importance of "the only requirement" in his sobriety
No Laughing Matter
April 2013
By:
Kris G.
| Sewickley, Pennsylvania
Her drinking became a big joke; then nobody thought it was funny
Dear Grapevine
March 2013
Web Exclusive: They Told Me: "To Drink is to Die"
June 2011
By:
Cahlen H.
| Idaho
A young member from a family devasted by the effects of alcoholism finds her way to AA.
Hey! I Need to Talk to You!
September 1978
By:
C. G.
| Kemah, Texas
The trouble with asking for help is that you just might get it
Activity Addicts
March 1975
By:
Paul M.
| Riverside, Illinois
If we can keep ourselves busy enough we won't have time to face ourselves
The High-bottom Drunk
June 1971
By:
W. G.
| Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Earth people usually equate 'alcoholic' with the skid-row bum, but we know there are many different types. Getting down to basics, Bill W. often opened a meeting with the simple greeting "Hi, drunks!
Hail, Perseverance Group of Tobago Island!
April 1968
By:
M. C.
| Pleasantville, New York
An AA writes gratefully of experience, strength, and hope shared at an Easter meeting on a "blessedly balmy island
Two Gifts
March 2017
The first sound he heard, shuffling down the hall of the detox in pajamas and paper slippers, was laughter. But where could it be coming from?
One for Mom and one for Harv
July 2016
A family passes down the gratitude for all Alcoholics Anonymous has given them.
The False Sea
November 2015
He had to concede that his drinking wasn't just part of the fisherman lifestyle
Happily Flipping
July 2015
A newcomer from the North Pacific finds warm, healing sobriety near the Equator
A Planted Seed
May 2015
By:
Ross D.
| Tulsa, Oklahoma
Fifty years ago, a member in Kansas delivered a message to a nursing class that later saved a life
Office Confidential
January 2015
By:
Patty G
| Naples, Florida
Her first day on a new job and she needed a meeting bad. Not a good day to be “outed”
Saved by the Bell
December 2014
By:
Ron B.
| Winnipeg, Manitoba
An attempt to break his anonymity at a job interview gets sidetracked by divine intervention
A Letter Every Week
December 2014
By:
Robyn W.
| Cincinnati, Ohio
A writing assignment from her sponsor healed years and years of anger
Later in Life
July 2014
By:
Betty L.
| Fitchburg, Wisconsin
She thought she was different from others, but came to see that she was just a garden variety alcoholic
You Let Me In
January 2014
By:
Terryl A.
| Waco, exas
A member reflects on how important the Third Tradition was in the beginning
The Open Hand of Friendship
November 2013
Shaking and scared, a newcomer is taken under the wing of an AA at a meeting
The Hiding Place
September 2012
By:
—Bill L., Roselle, N.J.
| Roselle, New Jersey
Who knew AA service work would be so rewarding?
Rebuilding a Life
March 2012
By:
Tom F.
| Oceanside, California
In sobriety, he was able to put the pieces of his life back together again