Sometimes Miracles Happen
December 2025
| Sober Holidays & Remote Communities
By:
Anonymous
| Rocky River, Ohio
A central office volunteer tries to help a liver patient find the AA path with a lot of love and hope
Letter of Hope from a Tribal Jail
July 2025
| AA Celebrates 90 Wonderful Years!
By:
Samantha W.
| Quinault Indian Nation, Washington
Thanks to outside volunteers and Grapevine, an incarcerated woman in Washington celebrates a year of sobriety
Finding My Place
March 2025
| Sober and Out
By:
P.K.
| Kansas City, Missouri
With help from a friend, a lesbian in Missouri makes it to AA and to a group she calls home
A Physician’s Story
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Jerry A.
| Escondido, Calif.
One doctor’s journey back to health
And When We Were Wrong
May 2024
| How the Steps Changed My Life
By:
Paul C.
| Oceanside, California
A member expresses his love for the Steps, especially the one where we clean things up and keep our mouths shut
Steps to Freedom
May 2024
| How the Steps Changed My Life
By:
Jim S.
| Cadillac, Michigan
After 35 years of living in the Steps, he gratefully recalls how much better life is
Fresh off the Farm
March 2024
| Spanish-Speaking AA Members
By:
Norberto A.
| Cartago, Valle
He learned to drink in Colombia, heard of AA in the U.S., then returned home to get sober and get involved
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
Only A Symptom
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Gregory S.
| Windsor, Calif.
“I am home, I am safe”—emotional sobriety frees him from fear
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
I just kept coming back
January 2022
| Beginners
By:
K.M.
| Edmond, Okla.
She didn’t understand why they told her to return tomorrow, but it worked. That was just the love she needed
Clear signal
November 2021
| Prayer and Meditation
By:
Ed
| Lexena, Kan.
When times get hard and we’re hit by a storm, we can always make an adjustment to improve the connection
One Year Later
June 2011
By:
Rod H.
| Parker, Colorado
A sober member celebrating a year looks back on a life with alcohol that began when he was 9 years old
Fathers and Sons
June 2011
By:
Anthony, R.
A man reflects upon both his own alcoholism and that of a father, who never made it to the rooms of AA
Meeting in God's Place
May 2011
By:
Don M.
| Cheyenne/Laramie, Wyoming
A group in Laramie, Wyoming move their meeting to the home of an ailing member
Mommy drunkest
April 2011
By:
S.E.B.
| East Hawkesbury, Ontario
A young mother gets a sober second shot at raising her children
I CAN'T FLY THAT KITE TODAY
November 2010
By:
FRANK A.
| Scranton, Pa.
A Fifth Step unveils a 41-year-old resentment that was stonewalling his spirituality
Almost Beyond Hope
November 2008
By:
Jimmy Z.
| Torrington, Connecticut
Nothing was working except a sister's prayers
Traditions Twelve: Signs Of AA
December 2006
By:
David S.
| New York, New York
An anonymous society, not a secret one
Whose Marriage Is It Anyway?
December 2006
By:
Charles H.
| Laguna Woods, California
A rocky relationship in recovery
