Now Is My Time
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Chandler L.
| Altus, Okla.
Sobriety was a long time coming—but now he wants to give back
Guilding light
October 2021
| Cooperation With Professionals (CPC)
By:
Ron B.
| Costa Mesa, Calif.
A member shares some powerful thoughts about AA’s patience, resilience and creativity during COVID-19
A Celebration of AA’s 85 Years
July 2020
| AA Around The World
By:
Michele Grinberg
| Chair of the General Service Board, West Virginia
The chair of the General Service Board shares her love for AA’s language of the heart
At Home in Bangalore
July 2020
| AA Around The World
By:
Baxter J.
| Gainesville, Texas
Far away in India for work, this Texan discovers a powerful new meaning of language of the heart
Gettin' busy
January 2019
| Stories for Day Counters!
By:
Tom C.
| La Salle, Illinois
A newcomer leaps back into life and becomes a much more interesting guy
Dear Grapevine
April 2018
Not sure yet
May 2017
By:
Terry E.
| Louisiana
A past delegate shares how his group welcomes newcomers who don’t yet know if they belong
Loving It!
August 2015
After being rendered homeless by alcoholism, his life in sobriety was pretty good
What's a DCM?
February 2015
By:
Susan K.
| Fresno, California
Learning the ropes from a service sponsor has made her a more grateful AA.
Short Fuse
July 2014
By:
Jeremy B.
| Abilene, Texas
A drive for liquor made him do something he thought he’d never do
I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND
September 2010
By:
ROBERT B.
| East Islip, N.Y.
It's all about trusting God, a young adult struggling with AA learns
What Does Your Daddy Do?
February 2006
By:
Paul C.
| Oceanside, California
(Mine goes to AA meetings)
How Much Is Enough?
October 2003
By:
Richard M.
| Golden, Colorado
Never enough money, women, cars, things. And never enough as a person either. --Step Ten - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Anonymity!
April 1951
By:
H. S.
| Great Neck, Long Island, New York
Gratitude, Humility, Anonymity. . .and the greatest of these is. . .
I'll handle this myself
May 2010
By:
WENDI V.
| Crystal Lake, Ill.
A traveler badly craving a drink finds a symbol of recovery in an odd place
Humility
April 1974
By:
M. D. B.
| Toledo, Ohio
A word whose meaning causes arguments, but a quality we all aspire to when we understand it
Adrift on the Deep Blue Sea, This Crazy Mediterranean Voyage in a Rowboat Summed up His Alcoholic Life
September 1968
By:
Rodger McA.
| Cheshire, Connecticut
AA in Norway
January 1958
Depression
April 1976
By:
L. H.
| Denver, Colorado
All right, we're sober! But what do we do about. . . - Four articles by AAs who have been there
Next stop: Trouble
June 2023
| Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
By:
Bobby M.
| Fort Thomas, Kentucky
Full of lust and ignoring his sponsor, he headed out. But this time he couldn’t shake the queasy feeling in his gut