The Children Say What A.A. Means to Them
December 1944
By:
Abbot T.'s stepson, Lt. Richard H.
I Didn't Think You A.A.s Could Do Him Much Good. . .
Dear Grapevine
June 2025
| Annual Prison Issue
That Wonderful Sense of Belonging
April 2025
| Making Amends
By:
Scotty K.
| New Orleans, Louisiana
A motorcycle trip was what he loved most in life. But why could he not enjoy it? Ninth Step to the rescue
The Spiritual Side of Life
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By:
Veronica B.
| Yuma, Ariz.
After her father’s death, the Big Book leads her to self-forgiveness
Finally Free
July 2024
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Andrea N.
| Lakewood, Colorado
Once deemed a “menace to society,” she got sober in jail, did her time and is now going back in to help others
Dear Grapevine
August 2022
| Sober Travel
The End of the Party
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By:
R.S.
| Dana Point, Calif.
A world traveler finds her way home to AA
It takes a village
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
By:
“Definitely Steve”
| Nashville, Tenn.
A longtime member in Tennessee gleefully remembers the wonderful oldtimers who gave him his start
Not My Finest Hour
February 2020
| Tough Times
By:
Brian R.
| Brentwood, Calif.
A member says it’s OK to share that we’re not always grateful and that we’re not having a wonderful day
Grateful
June 2019
| Letting Go of Resentments
By:
Simon H.
| Sag Harbor, New York
When he heard that you couldn’t feel grateful and resentful at the same time, he grabbed his pencil and pad
Dear Grapevine
March 2017
Dear Grapevine
February 2017
Can’t Stop
December 2016
By:
Coleen F.
| Jacksonville, Alabama
Her compulsion to drink made her hide vodka everywhere—in drawers, in old coats—even on the highway
Dear Grapevine
June 2016
The Opera Singer
June 2015
By:
Bonnie L.
| Antioch, California
She left the stage and hid in the bottle. Now she faces the music and sings a new tune
Always A Path Forward
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By:
Kendra M.
| Del Mar, Calif.
Her Higher Power opens a new door for her just as the last one seems to close
Donut Holes
July 2021
| The Annual Prison Issue
By:
Diana L.
| New York, N.Y.
We’ve been out there all year. We’ve had lots of picnics, eaten donuts, worn T-shirts and tried our best to laugh through the pandemic.
From Booze to Shaving Cream
August 2014
By:
Tom K.
| Bellevue, Washington
Even though he was at his bottom, at 33 years old, he had a hard time imagining staying sober forever
A Different River
February 2014
By:
Russ K.
| New Oxford, Pennsylvania
An AA describes how he keeps his mind open to stay sober in an ever-changing life
The Life I've Been Given
September 2008
By:
L.S.
| Sands Point, New York
A child of the Holocaust stops questioning her survival and embraces the fullness of life
Fear and the Fourth Step
April 2001
By:
Ted D.
| Teaneck, New Jersey
Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Around AA
May 1988
It Starts With the People
July 1987
By:
L. M.
| Springfield, Massachusetts
There was security and warmth in the room
Suggestions from a Temporary Sponsor
September 1975
By:
F. C.
| Scottdale, Arizona
A good start on the AA way of sober living