II
October 1947
Why Would You Do This, God?
Web Exclusives
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She thought her “spiritual light” had burned out, but sobriety found it rekindled
Let’s Go
August 2022
| Sober Travel
By:
Laura Lee W.
| Harrisonburg, Va.
Once fearful of traveling, a newcomer learns how to do it sober. Plus she gets to remember the fun she had
Dodged A Bullet
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Shelley B.
| Ventura, Calif.
An atheist depends on a “Holy Trinity” of Higher Powers to stay sober
Easy Does It Doing It
February 2019
| Stories by Our Longtime Members
By:
Jack P.
| Holiday, Fla.
After years of going out and coming back in, he discovered that everything happened for a reason
Here for each other
June 2018
By:
Dorothy J.
| New Salem, Massachusetts
The long, beautiful friendship of two women who met at the New York City St. Luke’s AA meeting in 1959
The Girl from Georgia
November 2014
By:
Margie
Homeless and unemployed, she hit her bottom in a bus station and begged God for help
The Scoop: Reporter Gets Sober
November 2013
By:
D.F.
| Woodinville, Washington
Finally, he got the story of a lifetime
Four Simple Words
October 2011
By:
Jim S.
| New Brighton, Pennsylvania
A cherished AA slogan comforts a newly sober husband after the loss of his wife
Stories My Father Told Me
June 2011
By:
David C.
| Costa Mesa, California
After a lifetime of drinking, a man looks back at the lessons his father tried to teach him about alcoholism
The Writing On the Wall
December 2003
By:
Patrick C.
| Provincetown, Massachusetts
He'd heard a higher power can be seen in anything. He never dreamed he'd find it in a note written by a stranger in a parked car.
Absolutely Crackers in Caracas
September 1967
By:
Lil H-C.
| Castro Valley, California
Nutty as a fruitcake", her sponsor said. But she had the golden key to unlock the door to life
December 20, 1957
April 1958
THE GOLDEN THREAD - Second and Final Installment <lbNews, comments and letters from and AA's worldwide outposts and centers--gleaned from letters to the Grapevine and General Service Headquarters, and from the "AA Exchange Bulletin," published monthly by
When Things Happen
June 2021
| Dating & Relationships
By:
Keith H.
| McMinnville, Ore.
A longtime member ponders what to do when home group conflicts arise
Dear Grapevine
May 2020
| Getting Into General Service
Dear Grapevine
July 2018
Pushing for humility
February 2011
By:
Alison
| Rhode Island
A work-hard, play-hard lifestyle became a work-obsessively, drink-alcoholically way of life
The Free Press Of AA
October 2003
Turnaround
January 2003
By:
Tom M.
| Fennville, Michigan
Once sober, this big shot began to strive for values he used to disdain
Good Ol' Higher Power
July 1983
By:
J. S.
| Warren, New Jersey
Belief came slowly, but today he finally has a
Our Right to Be Responsible
December 1981
By:
W. H.
| Manhattan, New York
Tradition 4 - Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or AA as a whole