Letters from Home
July 2024
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Suzanne A.
| Dalton, Georgia
While serving time for a DUI, the thing she treasured most was the love and compassion of her home group
Old Friends & Good Times
March 2022
| Emotional Sobriety
By:
Dave R.
| Lawrence, Kan.
I’ve had a subscription to Grapevine since the early 1980s. The magazine sits on my end table and every morning I read one story.
Balcony brothers
January 2019
| Stories for Day Counters!
By:
Luke H.
| Allendale, New Jersey
He made his plan to escape out the back door. But two guys with a coffeepot were waiting
One book’s journey
January 2020
| Spiritual Awakenings
By:
Julia D.
| Westfield, N.J.
The making of the book Our Great Responsibility: A Selection of Bill W.’s General Service Conference Talks (1951-1970)
The Power and the Glory
July 1973
By:
S. M.
| Safford, Arizona
Presenting a fifteen-page section in which five members share different kinds of experience and offer some observations on sponsorship
My Ego Was Showing
October 1972
By:
S. M.
| Lake Worth, Florida
Self-pity and pride made this speaker miserable
Together in Recovery
September 2017
They share the same sobriety date and are sisters in recovery—helping each other, helping their loved ones, and helping their fellow AAs
Fractured Friendship
July 2011
By:
Suzan C.
| San Francisco, California
Two women, inseparable in drinking and sobriety, until one relapses
A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit
April 1945
A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit
March 1945
Pipeline Buddies
March 2026
| AA & the Family
By:
Francis H.
| Lakewood, California
Two sober guys grabbing a few seconds of fellowship before the workday begins is good stuff. But this day included a hug
Web Exclusive: Man Down
November 2011
By:
Anonymous
| Virginia
A vision of himself falling into the chasm of alcoholism was his spiritual awakening