A Unilateral Approach
April 2011
By:
Billy D.
| Los Gatos, California
When it comes to working Step Four, it’s this sponsor’s way or the freeway
Off with the blinders
March 2011
By:
Robin S.
| Waldport, Oregon
A member finds a way to hold on to the pink cloud
Web Exclusive: Free On the Inside
March 2011
By:
Bruce M.
| Garden City, Georgia
Prison AA offers him another chance to be "a real man."
The ride of my life
October 2009
By:
MICHELE C.
| Davis, Calif.
Two strangers at the top of a mountain pass share about staying sober
Rock bottom
July 2009
By:
PAOLINA A.
| Venice, Calif.
A member finds her Seventh Step is just a stone's throw away
Just one drink away
July 2009
By:
Tony P.
| San Francisco, Calif.
Doing the work and remembering the past reminds an AA not to pick up
Living Life Forward
October 2005
By:
Pam C.
| Vail, Arizona
Sometimes, desperation can be a saving grace
Miracles: Yours and Mine
February 2004
By:
Dave L.
| Prineville, Oregon
He thought they were only for the very good people, the saints
Damned to Repeat?
March 2000
By:
Michael P.
| Yreka, California
He couldn't see the forest for the trees
Dear Grapevine
March 2019
| What’s On Your Mind?
Better Late Than Never?
January 2017
It isn’t your age that counts when you come into the program, it’s your willingness, as one older newcomer discovers
Paradise not lost
October 2016
How a return to the scene of her darkest drinking became a beautiful experience
St. Louis Blues
August 2016
Too much booze and a nasty fistfight got this 20-year-old mother a one-way ticket to a psych ward
Dear Grapevine
May 2016
One Main Road
November 2015
Early in sobriety, she took a trip that confirmed for her that the path of AA was the right one
Dear Grapevine
August 2015
The Road from Reno
September 2014
By:
Don A.
| Germantown, Tennessee
On a cross-country trip with his parents, a son learns a valuable lesson while making amends to his mom
Rowing Up the River
June 2014
By:
Jim
| Tasmania
After he started feeling worse sober, he realized that he needed to do things differently
Confrontation
September 2013
By:
Anonymous
An old-timer learns a valuable lesson about the need to "discipline" her group
Back in the Groove
January 2013
A man at a mountain retreat helps a songwriter change his tune—just in time
Sign Language
December 2011
By:
David S.
| New York, New York
Public information begins at home for this alcoholic
The Year I Needed Santa
December 2011
By:
P.S.
| Phoenix, Arizona
An unexpected encounter in a neighbor's yard helps a woman get her gratitude game back
Web Exclusive: Finding God in AA
November 2011
By:
Stacy G.
| Evanston, Illinois
She came into AA as an atheist. Or so she thought.
ON THE SHORES OF THE AEGEAN
May 2009
By:
RODNEY N.
| Mountain Home, Idaho
A beacon of hope is lit in Turkey