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The Importance of Powerlessness

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Coleen F. | Micanopy, Fla.
Hearing “How It Works” refreshes her sobriety anew each meeting she attends

Full Speed Sober

November 2023 | Gratitude
By: Jeremy S. | Baltimore, Maryland
With a little too much energy, a newcomer hits the road to avoid his Ninth Step. Boy, was he in for an adventure!

Meet the parents

April 2023 | AA & Families
By: Michael O. | Marysville, Wash.
His folks came to “birthday night” to see what this weird cult was about. By the end of the night, everyone got a surprise

Something to see

February 2022 | Getting Through Tough Times
By: Susana C.
Though her husband’s illness came at a most difficult time, the love of the Fellowship came through everyone

Green Pastures

January 2022 | Beginners
By: Mark D. | Eagan, Minn.
A farm boy shares how he took the seed someone planted and got five decades of a meaningful sober life

Working on The Inside

June 2020 | The Annual Prison Issue
By: Todd P. | Bountiful, Utah
Thanks to the literature, some inmates in Utah are determined to stay sober and go through the Steps

YPAA or bust

September 2019 | Young & Sober
By: George S. | Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
One day, he stumbled into a bunch of young AAs eager to hit the road. That’s when his sobriety went into high gear

Boyish charm

September 2018
By: Zachary F. | Santa Fe, New Mexico
At 21, his innocent face had only gotten him so far. But this night, standing in the cold, he saw hope

Lookin’ Good

December 2017 | Issue Title Here
By: Carol S. | Knoxville, Tennessee
She kept up a good front as she drank down the liquor and ran from her emotional past

Rear-Ended

September 2017
By: Paul H. | Raleigh, N.C.
He was rear-ended on this way to a meeting, but only because his Higher Power really, really had something to tell him

Shoes to Live For

September 2016
A woman in spike heels kept him sober that night. How did she know all his secrets?

Flung Open

May 2016
With the help of a good sponsor, she looked in every dark cranny and it changed her heart and soul

Back in My Heart

October 2015
She keeps her father's boyhood photo to remind her of how far her healing has come

Christmas in a bar

December 2013
By: Mike H. | El Cajon, California
The call to come home pierced his empty soul. It was from his 12-year-old son

You won’t find rainbows in the bottom of a glass

December 2013
By: John B. | Rochester, New York
While Sinatra’s lonely saloon song plays, an old-timer wonders how he picked up after 39 years

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Flirting with Life

September 2005
By: Michelle W. | Ocala, Florida
A pessimist gives hope a try

Lost In the Shadows

March 2001
By: Claire L. | Mineola, New York

The Guys From AA Are Here. . .

May 1994
By: Tom O'M. | Stamford, Connecticut

A Taste of Happiness

November 1986
By: J. J. | Lowell, Florida
From the August 1971 Grapevine

AA in Five Languages

September 1972
By: R. E. T. | Denver, Colorado
Around the world, the setting may be different but the message is the same

A Taste of Happiness

August 1971
By: J. J. | Lowell, Florida
The program reaches inside prison walls to light up a lost life

My Name Is Stephen

October 1965
By: S.P. | Bernardsville, New Jersey
An alcoholic's own story

A Place Where I Feel Wonderful

October 1999

Deadly Hobby for a Retiree

January 1975
By: Teet" C. | North Hollywood, California
Free at last from people-pleasing, this veteran movie publicist was all set to please himself

The Boy Grew up

June 1955
By: C.U. | Dade City, Florida

Addendum Ad Infinitum

January 2003
By: R. J. | New York, New York
The chants keep getting longer and longer, and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight

Dear Grapevine

April 2009
By: K.G. | North Carolina
Endings

Ham on Wry

October 2005
HEARD AT MEETINGS....

Without Heroics. . .As He Would Wish It, This Is the Story Of Dr. Bob the Physician Whose 'Practice' Reached Half Across the world. . .

January 1951

Think About the Flower

A professor came to accept her alcoholism and became willing to change

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