Little Rock Plan Gives Prospects Close Attention
November 1989
By:
G. H. B.
| Little Rock, Arkansas
One of a 1947 series on group methods and techniques - From the September 1947 Grapevine
A True Pioneer
March 2025
| Sober and Out
By:
Mily T.
| San Francisco, California
One our earliest women longtimers was a tireless champion of AA and a close friend of Bill’s. A member shares her story
Dear Grapevine
May 2024
| How the Steps Changed My Life
Right in the Middle
January 2022
| Beginners
By:
Peggy S.
| Belleville, N.J
In Aruba for her granddaughter’s wedding, a newcomer uses every tool she has to surround herself with AA
Off to Portland
September 2020
| Living Sober Group
By:
Sasha P.
| Seattle, Wash.
She once thought drinking was the only way to have a happy life. Discovering YPAA events changed all that
Dear Grapevine
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
Coincidence—Or Something Else?
July 2019
| The Prison Issue
By:
Phil D.
| Monroeville, Pa.
Wednesdays, at 7pm, hold a very special significance for him
Balancing act
June 2019
| Letting Go of Resentments
By:
David S.
| New York, New York
An old-timer remembers to watch his impulses and stay on the sober path—no matter what
I Might Have A Drinking Problem
August 2018
By:
R.J. H.
After years of humiliation and painful physical injuries, he realized that drinking was not the way to heal his childhood trauma
Through the grief
February 2018
| Title Goes Here
By:
Tom A.
| Indianapolis, Indiana
With service, literature, a good sponsor and lots of prayer, a new father doesn’t drink when tragedy strikes his family
Study Buddies
October 2016
Her daily dose of AA literature for a wonderful sobriety boost was just a call away
Wrong way
July 2016
After 10 years dry, she went back to drinking, and it took a disaster to wake her up
Going Down
June 2016
By:
Steve B.
| Hopewell Junction, N.Y.
He was escorted to the elevators the day he was fired. Then booze escorted him to AA
Change in Focus
October 2015
By:
Anonymous
Desperate to relate to her difficult mother, she let the Steps help her put the microscope away
I Got My Wish
October 2015
Once she got sober, Alcoholics Anonymous gave this transgender woman something she always wanted