Every Day Counts
October 2023
| Mid-Sobriety Challenges
By:
Ray T.
| Ocala, Florida
His wife’s return from a relapse inspired him to recommit to AA just at the right time
Relapse Is Not A Requirement
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| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
R.B.
| Plainfield, Ind
Finally, he asked his Higher Power to make him willing to be willing
The Zip Line
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| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Barbara D.
| Enola, Pa.
At the mountain recovery retreat, the zip line was almost more than she bargained for. But not quite...
Reliance
August 2022
| Sober Travel
By:
Mike K.
| Palestine, Texas
In a tough prison after a relapse, his growing bond with a Higher Power assures him it’ll be OK
A New View
September 2020
| Living Sober Group
By:
D.J.B.
| Wyckoff, N.J.
The beauty of making amends and not shutting the door on the past is that a window opens to help others
The False Promise of Alcohol
November 2018
By:
Katie N.
| Harrogate
One alcoholic enumerates the promises that kept her captive to alcohol, and the Promises that resulted when she was set free
Life support
February 2018
| Title Goes Here
By:
Carol B.
| South Hadley, Massachusetts
When it got tough, she reached out to the rooms and found love and care. It was a Mother’s Day to remember
Leveled
September 2017
By:
Richard M.
| Dillon, Montana
In prison with 38 years sober, he hit a whole new bottom. Service was the way out
After A Relapse, Hope
June 2017
The voice of AA never left her, even as she hit bottom late one night in her fourth—and last—treatment center
Any Lengths
April 2017
By:
Corliss Burke
| Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
A former Class A Trustee and addiction professional shares about the wonderful ride she and AA have been on for the past 26 years
50 Years Out of the Ring
December 2015
An old-timer remembers back to 1965, when she stopped fighting and hung up the gloves for good
Acceptance Is a Two-Way Street
November 2014
By:
P. J.
| Los Angeles, California
A gay man remembers learning the importance of AA unity in meetings in the 1970s
Family Myths
May 2014
By:
Edwin B.
| Minneapolis, Minnesota
He grew up with a lot of very specific expectations. They kept him drinking until he let them go
Broken Record
August 2013
By:
April P.
| Monongahela, Pennsylvania
Her life kept skipping as she played the same song over and over and over
The Best Ingredients
May 2013
By:
Celeste D.,
| Hagerstown, Maryland
With one cup sponsor, 12 Steps and a pinch of hope, she cooked up a whole new life
El Exigente Get Lost!
July 1969
By:
J. S.
| Manhattan, New York
Coffee causes this AA almost, but not quite, as much trouble as booze
Renacimiento (Ray-nah-see-myehn'-toh): A Rebirth
August 1963
By:
C.
| Tegucigalpa
La historia del grupo que "12th-stepped" un otro grupo y los resultados
AA+M.D.= 1 Happy Doc
September 1962
By:
Dr. Bob M.
| Wellington
An AA physician says: "Disturbances that many psychiatrists would consider psychotic have yielded to the AA program
A Martian Report on the Curious Cult of "Alcohol" Drinkers
May 1961
By:
R. Z.
| Council Bluffs, Iowa
I Knocked on the Wrong Door
February 1961
By:
B. C.
| Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
A mad mix-up of names sent the Twelfth Stepper off on what looked like a wild-goose chase
Knowledge Is Not Enough
April 1953
By:
H. G.
| Charlottetown, P.E.I.
But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be <emphasis type="italic">absolutely unable to stop drinking the basis of self-knowledge."</emphasis> (Alcoholics Anonymous, page 50)
Plenty of 12th Step Work
April 1947