The Best Medicine
April 2024
| Happy Birthday Big Book!
By:
Robert P.
| Amity, Oregon
His sponsor said if he read the book he probably wouldn’t drink. He was right. Now he studies it!
One of the guys
August 2023
| AA in the Military
By:
DeAnna K.
| Alexandria, Virginia
She drank the other pilots under the table and out-performed them in the sky. How could she be an alcoholic?
It’s a Seat, Not a Throne
May 2023
| Home Group
By:
Deb W.
| Spokane, Wash.
While sitting in her well-deserved chair one day, she temporarily forgot about her group’s primary purpose
Family Secret
April 2023
| AA & Families
By:
R.G.
| Slidell, La.
After years of drinking and pain, sobriety prepared a mother for a wonderful unexpected reunion
Powerlessness
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Catherine F.
A classic Big Book story, often re-read, leads the way to her continued sobriety
The Old Umbrella
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Tom A.
| Akron, Ohio
Can you go out in the rain without getting wet? He certainly tried hard enough
They Held Me Accountable
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Ian H.
| Louisville, KY
Grapevine kept him coming back to his first home group—and showed him how much others appreciated their “meeting in print”
I Found My God in Perryville Prison
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Kirsten M.
She found “the possibility of a God I could trust” in the unlikeliest of places
A Cold December Night
December 2019
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By:
Joe G.
| Athens, Ohio
Watching two AA guys on a Twelfth Step call was a Christmas Eve gift he’ll never forget
Free to explore
November 2019
| Grapevine Classics
By:
John M.
| Laguna Niguel, California
A lifelong spiritual seeker gets sober and continues his search for a Higher Power
"Dr. Bob? One minute please"
September 2019
| Young & Sober
By:
Rose Gracie S.
| Monroe, Michigan
Answering late night calls at St. Thomas Hospital, she was helping alcoholics way before she knew she was one
A Child’s Memories
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
By:
Jan C.
| Naples, Fla.
Her father sobered up with the help of one of AA’s most important friends
A New—But the Same—Addiction
March 2019
| What’s On Your Mind?
By:
Definitely Steve
| Nashville, Tenn.
He was a garden variety alcoholic, not a drug addict. Or so he thought
Work buddies
October 2018
By:
Jeff W.
| Maplewood, New Jersey
A member involved in CPC work tells how his drunken past helps him to be useful on the job
Not Yet?
May 2017
None of that usual alcoholic stuff had happened to her—not the broken marriage, lost job, estranged children, or click of handcuffs on her wrists. Not yet, anyway.
Telling the Truth About Ourselves
January 1997
By:
Dennis B.
| Northfield, Minnesota
Letting newcomers know what AA is all about
The Next 50 Years--Inside and Out
July 1988
A 1985 conference presentation by W. J. Estelle, Jr., former nonalcoholic trustee
