Long Strange Trip
June 2018
By:
Andy G.
| Midland, Mich.
They were childhood buddies who drank and drugged together, then got sober. Now they were taking one final road trip
An Old-Fashioned Twelfth Step Call
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Debbie D.
| Concord,, Calif.
Giving this kind of call helps keep you from receiving it
As We Understood Whatever
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Albert L.
| Tucson, Ariz.
It didn’t have to be “his” God or “her” God or some church’s God
Any Lengths
August 2018
By:
Gary C.
| Evergreen, Colo.
Forty years sober, he looks back and discovers the key to finding sobriety and sanity
A Double life
May 2020
| Getting Into General Service
By:
Mitzi C.
| Surprise, Ariz.
After decades of sobriety, she was now driving drunk and hiding bottles. The secrecy was killing her
Soldier Down
October 2011
By:
David A.
| Kaiserslautern, Germany
German beer taught this sergeant who had the real power
Early AA in the Cariboo Mountains
August 2011
By:
Buster H.
| British Columbia
A big game hunter accepts that he is powerless over alcohol and becomes the first member of AA in a remote area of British Columbia
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
Sober Sisters
February 2024
| Getting Through Tough Times
By:
Susan and Lynda C.
| New York, New York
Daughters of an AA mom share their long, wonderful stories
Act On the Decision
April 1989
By:
Alan L.
| Gentry, Arkansas
Step Four - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Are There Magic Answers?
June 1979
By:
E. S.
| Manhattan, New York
He found what he needed in the AA program
Worn out
April 2019
| Relapse
By:
R.A.
| Columbia, Missouri
Ripped and stained, it’s a precious memory of his last drunk. It’s not just any shirt
Web Exclusive: Let's Work Together
March 2011
By:
Dave B.
| Guelph, Ontario
An AA member suggests some helpful guidelines to keep in mind while doing service.
ON THE ROAD
May 2009
By:
DON G.,
| Temple, Texas
Wherever he goes, a traveler finds home in the Fellowship of AA
Let Free Will Work Its Wonders
January 1970
By:
F. M.
| New Canaan, Connecticut
The most important things we say to a new person are often the words we say casually
My Name is..." Miles
January 1963
By:
M. E.
| Dayton, Ohio
Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly, But coward-like with trembling terror die." Shakespeare
Lightening Rod for Controversy?
A lack of group conscience meetings in her homegroup led her to the Twelve Concepts