Hitting the Road
May 2025
| Young and Sober
By:
Dave H.
| Lincoln, Nebraska
Don’t need beer for this! Dave and Pat are having a blast checking off their bucket list. Next stop: GSO in New York City!
My Sober Mom
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Lynn M.
| Santa Ana, Calif.
Her mother, sober and beloved by AA
Dreams of My Mother
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Carl A.
| Minneapolis, Minn.
His mother’s appearance in his dreams was no coincidence
Triumph of the heart
March 2022
| Emotional Sobriety
By:
Tom B.
| Patchogue, N.Y.
Two alcoholics share an unexpected powerful moment one night in the local jail
Open Up!
February 2022
| Getting Through Tough Times
By:
Anonymous
| Cranston, R.I.
What? No meeting today? He was new and now desperate—but he wasn’t alone
One Among Many
March 2018
By:
C.B.
| Bend, Ore.
One enthusiastic AA had service positions in multiple home groups, until her service sponsor helped her understand that less can actually be more
My Last Amend
June 2014
By:
Anonymous
After 40 years and a beautiful life, an old-timer returns to her mother’s grave
Alone with my ex
September 2010
By:
DOUGLAS M.
| Covington, Ky.
During a coerced meeting with a bitter ex-wife, a Ninth Step emerges
Can I Buy You a Drink?
August 1995
By:
Joan B.
| Toronto, Ontario
This AA member tried to buy Bill W. a drink--and got an earful of AA instead
And Then We Were Five
February 1976
By:
Art C.
| Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
The chain begins with one reaching out to another
Requirements Beyond Sobriety
March 1974
By:
Zander M.
| Greensboro, North Carolina
Some reflections on the wearing of two hats and some suggestions on AA attitudes
Meetings Meetings Everywhere, But. . .
July 1959
AA Around the World
August 1958
By:
Gerard V.
| Bothaville
COMRADESHIP IN SOUTH AFRICA - News, comments, and letters from and about AA's worldwide outposts and centers--gleaned from letters to the Grapevine and the General Service Office, and from the "AA Exchange Bulletin," published monthly by GSO