The Pussycat
August 2017
By:
Anonymous
Getting sober was only half the battle for a tough cat from the streets with gratitude in her heart
The young one
July 2009
By:
DANNA F.
| Waltham, Mass
A teen AA finds that age doesn't matter when all are alcoholics
From the page to my heart
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
By:
Ann A.
| Blaine, Minn.
Young and confused, she landed in a meeting full of men. Luckily there was a basket in the corner
Three strikes, you’re in!
March 2014
By:
Jack B.
| Oakland, New Jersey
He thought his differences would not let him stay, but Tradition Three said no way
Street Tough
June 2023
| Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
By:
Lonnie D.
| Washington, D.C.
Growing up in D.C., he learned to drink and fight, but in AA he learned to surrender
Stranded
May 2022
| 60th Anniversary of the Concepts
By:
Roxanne K.P.
| Bismarck, N.D.
Caught in a snow storm, a desperate sober mom uses everything AA taught her to get her family to safety
AA Around the World: Island in the Sun
May 2011
By:
Tony H.
| St. Michael
Celebrating a half-century of AA history in Barbados
Powerlessness
June 2011
AA Grapevine Readers Respond to "Singleness of Purpose--what Are AAs Saying Today?" Featured in the May 2004 Issue
September 2004
By:
Jon
| Saratoga Springs, New York
More welcome
HOW HAVE I CHANGED?
March 2009
By:
JIM
| Devonport, Tasmania
A retiree muses on what's different after 32 years
Sober over Sixty
October 2004
By:
Marion B.
| Holualoa, Hawaii
They were invisible until they found AA
Mail Call for A.A.s at Home and Abroad
June 1948
By:
E.G.S.F.
| Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
I, Too, Have a Shrine
Life, Unlimited
September 2007
By:
Diana C.
| Oceanside, California
A teenager reaps rewards of sobriety
Again at the Crossroads
November 1961
By:
Bill W.
The substance of Bill's remarks at the closing session of AA's 1961 General Service Conference
Practice These Principles. . .
March 1987
Tradition Three: The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking.