Web Exclusive: Home Group Mementos
January 2012
By:
Barb R.
| Medford, Oregon
Identical leather bracelets serve as ties to a home group amongst fisherman in Mexico
Child's Play
November 2011
By:
Regan G.
| Mesa, Arizona
How service saved the day at a holiday family affair
Web Exclusive: It's Never Too Late
August 2011
By:
Matt S.
| Buffalo Grove, Illinois
It look him thirty years to realize that it's never to late to ask for help
We Were All Just Drunks
May 2005
By:
Sean B.
| Kalamazoo, Michigan
Alcoholism cares nothing for pay-grade or rank
Escape to Alaska
March 2003
By:
Rachel R.
| Everett, Washington
She went looking for oblivion, but found a friend
So Changed a Life
November 1999
By:
C.F.
| Manhattan, New York
The author of "Fear of Fear" updated her story. - From the September 1968 Grapevine
Retreat From Sanity
March 1985
By:
F. P.
| Gainesville, Florida
Changes in attitude can lead us to a drink--or too close for comfort
Made It Out of Hell
March 2022
| Emotional Sobriety
By:
Kathy F.
| Dardenne Prairie, Mo.
A mom, sober since 1972, recalls the fearful secretive years before AA and how much better life is now
Let It Begin with Me
October 1996
After many "geographicals" and "yets," this member concluded she should do the footwork and leave the results to a Higher Power.
Finally Home
April 2020
| Home Group
By:
L.M.
| Brooklyn, N.Y.
A transgender member shares about the group she found that loves her no matter what
Out of the Woods
April 2005
By:
D.C.
| Albany, New York
Where are the people with ten or more years?
What Ever Happened to. . .
August 1971
By:
Anonymous
| Ohio
What becomes of all the men and women who all of a sudden are not around any more? And has anything happened to our feeling of responsibility?
Dear Editors:
June 1968
By:
F. R.
| Manhattan, New York
. . .something good and healthy is emerging in AA. . .
Retire from AA?
August 1964
By:
J. V.
| Cali, Colombia
It's not that I think I'm necessary, but. . .
Bloom Where You Are Planted
July 2006
By:
Sean F.
| Akron, Ohio
Staying sober inside with meetings and without