How to Face a Cocktail Party
May 1945
By:
Hugh B.
| Manhattan, New York
(By One Who Doesn't Like Them, Either)
Time on Your Hands?
September 1944
Oliver the Cat
June 2015
Believing in a higher power didn't come naturally to her so she started with a familiar, friendly spirit
Dear Grapevine
July 2024
| Annual Prison Issue
Pilot Error
April 2016
By:
V. G.
| Sebring,, Fla.
Her sobriety left the gate several times but could never seem to leave the ground
Sophie’s cake
December 2013
By:
Anonymous
A long holiday drive to see the in-laws … so what’s wrong with having some sweets?
My First Alcoholic Patient
September 1974
By:
Frank A. Seixas, MD
A 19-page section of sharing by members of the medical profession
Sober at ground zero
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
By:
T.Y.
| Olathe, Kan.
A courageous sober doctor fights the good fight in the COVID-19 wards of a hospital near Wuhan
Isolation? Are You Kidding?
July 2020
| AA Around The World
By:
Ruth H.
| Slinger, Wis
Who said change is easy? Staying sober and sane through a health crisis requires all the Steps she’s got
Closing argument
November 2019
| Grapevine Classics
By:
Mitchell G.
| Watauga, Texas
Facing five years in jail, a sober dad stands before a judge and gets something much longer-lasting
On the grass plains of Kenya
December 2018
| Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities
By:
Debbie E.
| Portland, Oregon
For a woman in Oregon, sobriety made a lifelong dream of working with elephants come true
No fly zone
September 2018
By:
Mike M.
| Soledad, California
A final drunken trip to “the hole” woke him up. Now he has hope and some to share
Desperate on New Year’s Eve
December 2015
There he sat, all alone feeling sorry for himself ... would he drink? Or would he reach out?
What's a DCM?
February 2015
By:
Susan K.
| Fresno, California
Learning the ropes from a service sponsor has made her a more grateful AA.
Who I want to be
March 2009
By:
DWIGHT E.
| West palm Beach, Florida
Facing eight years in jail, a dad with two fatally ill kids chooses sobriety
Tricked into Service
February 2004
By:
Wanda S.
| Jacksonville, Florida
She hoped she'd be able to help out every once in a while
The Avenue
April 2003
By:
Tom Mac D.
| Braintree, Massachusetts
A stroll through the old neighborhood, where nothing is different, but everything is changed