Ham on Wry
February 1988
Honest, Open and Willing
March 2018
By:
Dan S.
| Salem, N.Y.
This wandering alcoholic never found a place to call “home”—until he stepped through the doors of a small meeting in Vermont
Breaking Through the Denial
January 2014
By:
M.E.
| Rocky Hill, New Jersey
It took several false starts in AA before he understood powerless
Another Human Being
May 2012
By:
J.M.
| Oceanside, New York
Metal bars couldn't stop the Fifth Step from freeing this man's new friend
The Grapevine Timeline
June 2009
Letting go
March 2022
| Emotional Sobriety
By:
Carol K.
| Sarasota, Fla.
How a longtimer learned to observe her thoughts and identify her defects so they don’t take her freedom away
The Seeds of Treatment
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Kathleen W.
| Roseburg, Ore.
Once the seed of acceptance was planted within herself, she found a way to nourish it in others
Fitting In
She realized that she wasn't that different from everyone else and that she was at home in any AA meeting
Out of a Living Hell
May 2014
By:
Nancy B.
| Enola, Pennsylvania
Sober four years, she can now enjoy being alive
Rare and elusive
January 2010
By:
JOE H.
| Tucson, Ariz.
Until he takes the First Step, a collector misses the real value of the Big Book
Getting to the 2005 International Convention of AA
July 2004
Dealing with the past before crossing the border
Good Things Come
September 2014
By:
Kathy B.
| Kaneohe, Hawaii
With AA, a member in Hawaii weathers some storms and cruises into calmer waters
Serving Online
April 2026
| Getting into General Service
By:
Bob C.
| Jacksonville, Florida
Becoming a GSR opened a new world for Bob, and because he was a computer guy, the growing kept going