The Man from AA
May 2016
We show up, we help out, we comfort the suffering alcoholic—because that’s what we do
Dear Grapevine
April 2016
I Found My Place
February 2016
Through painful obstacles, a woman with mental illness stays sober and learns to help others
Dear Grapevine
January 2016
I Got My Wish
October 2015
Once she got sober, Alcoholics Anonymous gave this transgender woman something she always wanted
From 3,000 Miles Away
June 2015
By:
Tod C.
| Chino, California
A man serving 30 to life learns a new way to live from someone he's never seen
Operation: Cooperation
May 2015
By:
M.M. and Y.Y.
| New York, New York
A sponsor and sponsee sign up to help get the AA message to doctors in the field
I Better Get a Kiss Out of This
April 2014
By:
George K.
| Magnolia, Texas
Lucky for him, a romantic night out took a very strange turn
Transformed
January 2014
By:
Jennifer D.
| Wilmington, North Carolina
A past delegate tells how young peoples meetings and service changed her life
River of Shadows
January 2014
By:
Dick L.
| Meridian, Idaho
Sometimes it is in the darkest places that the light is most visible
Where the ducks swim
December 2013
By:
T.E.
| Seattle, Washington
Sweet talks by a golden pond help a “grumpy” agnostic spread his wings
Dear Grapevine
August 2013
Time To Laugh
September 2012
By:
Suzan C.
| San Francisco, California
What's so funny about the things we say in AA?
I Still Sit up Front, I Still Raise my Hand
March 2012
By:
G.G.
| Huntington, New York
After 20 years, this alcoholic does not have all the answers
Those Marvelous 12 Steps
November 1975
By:
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick
An interpretation of the Steps by an eminent scholar who was not one of us--but was always one with us - From AA Today, published in 1960 by The AA Grapevine, Inc.
An AA Doctor Opens His Heart
December 1971
By:
D. G. M., MD
| Montreal, Quebec
Young people solving their problems remind him that only a closed mind can hurt our Fellowship
The World We Live in
June 1970
By:
Bobbie G.
| Queens, New York
As a sober alcoholic, can I come to terms with the hostility, confusion, and misunderstanding all around me?
They Thought He Was Drunk
October 1965
By:
L. H.
| North Hollywood, California
Would I have gone to him? Honestly, I don't know. That's the horror of it.
A Hopeless Case
September 1965
By:
J. M. H.
| West Trenton, New Jersey
Overweight, drunk and on drugs--why live? Then along came a doctor, a nurse and AA
I Am an Alcoholic
August 1964
A For Attitude A For Action
June 1964
By:
B. N. MacA.
| Manhattan, New York
Working the Steps, I change: my life changes
The Slip That Turned Out Sober
March 1963
By:
Anon.
| Manhattan, New York
Ten years dry--then a beer and a rye<lb Then four years in hell--paved the way to get well
Jazz Musician
August 1961
By:
V. G.
| Van Nuys, California
Like the arrangements my combo played, I gave the cue for the finale
The Twelve Steps Revisited/Step 3
July 1961
By:
J. E.
| Guilford, Connecticut
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as <emphasis type="italic">we understood Him</emphasis>
The Twelve Steps Revisited/Step 2
May 1961
By:
J. E.
| Guilford, Connecticut
Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.