Dear Grapevine
May 2017
Dear Grapevine
November 2016
Zipped up tight
September 2016
For a long time, she needed her leather jacket for armor. Now she was beginning to thaw
Dear Grapevine
August 2016
Dear Grapevine
February 2016
Looking Up
January 2016
When he first got to AA, he could only stare at the floor. Now he can almost see peoples’ eyes
Learning to Live
June 2015
By:
Ronnie B.
| Riverview, Florida
How AA helped one long-time inmate stay sober in prison and chart a new path
Dear Grapevine
June 2015
Out of the Closet
March 2015
By:
Anonymous
An atheist shares about her long sober journey in Alcoholics Anonymous
Lean Into It
March 2015
By:
Jenn H.
| Chicago, Illinois
A leap in the deep end and some AA tools helped her get past her lifelong fears
Still Powerless
March 2015
By:
Jennifer C.
| Bend, Oregon
Her relapse began many years before she ordered a glass of wine in the restaurant
90 days of June
February 2015
By:
Carol P.
| Clinton, Massachusetts
One summer, a woman with a few years sober decided to kick her program into high gear.
Take a risk
January 2015
By:
Mily T.
| San Francisco, California
With spurs and spiky wristbands she found her way to AA
Faith and Flour
December 2014
By:
Bernice S.
| Lincoln, Nebraska
With one cup of AA and a pound of love, a sober mother bakes some holiday joy
A Zebra Among Horses
July 2014
By:
Anonymous
The pack she ran with in rehab was great, but now it was time to switch herds
Web Exclusive: Coming Back and Coming Clean
December 2011
By:
Scott T.
After a relapse, a member tells his homegroup that he took money from the basket
Chained to the Beer Fridge
September 2011
By:
Anton R.
| Edmonton, Alberta
He dragged it from Moscow to Texas to Canada ... and right into the rooms of AA
The Garden of the Present Moment
September 2011
By:
James S.
A Buddhist in AA talks about how through sobriety, he was able to truly practice his faith
Growing Up on the Farm
July 2011
By:
Al S.
| Orting, Washington
It all began as a good time in a small farming community, but the good times wouldn’t last
The Third Time Is the Charm
June 2011
By:
Cheryl B.
| North Riverside, Illinois
A young mother hits bottom and finds AA but learns through relapse that she still had to concede powerlessness
Why I like the Lord’s Prayer
April 2011
By:
Mel B.
| Toledo, Ohio
An AA shares why he is not about to abandon this meeting closer
On dangerous ground
February 2011
By:
M. F.
A crush on her sponsor cracks the protective shell around her sexuality
Russian roulette
March 2010
By:
CLARK W.
| Carter, Okla.
There may be good odds, but that one shot is a killer
THE BROTHERHOOD
October 2009
By:
LUIS JOSE R.
| Lake Oswego, Ore.
Loud, Vulgar and joyous, a band of AA friends keeps a loner from slipping away
Y.E.S.: Diving In Headfirst
December 2008
By:
Adam H.
| New York, New York
The fun of drinking never resurfaced
When The Sky Caves In
March 2006
By:
J. Mc.
| Gainesville, Florida
Staying sober when the worst happens
The Courage of Friends
May 2005
By:
John Q.
| New York, New York
A curmudgeon draws on an inexhaustible amount of AA power