Eighteen Days
February 2004
By:
Jeffrey T.
| Bountiful, Utah
A newcomer begins the journey back to life without alcohol
Out of gas
October 2017
By:
Mollie M.
| Boone, N.C.
A mother recalls how she used to wait outside the liquor store and wonder how people lived their lives
Face police
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
By:
David S.
| New York, New York
Although his inner joy may not always show, he’s found the freedom to accept who he is
Finding Forgiveness
July 2023
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Steve T.
| Beaverton, Oregon
For many years he held a resentment toward his father. Thanks to AA, this day he was ready to let it go
A Better Chance At A Better Choice
January 2019
| Stories for Day Counters!
By:
Joan M.
| Davis, Calif.
Looking into mirror of her past life helped her find the start of sobriety—and sufferings’ end
The Fly in the Ointment
December 2005
By:
Perry W.
| Buxton, Maine
An atheist comes to terms with the Steps
The Silent Sponsor
December 1964
By:
J. S. C.
| New Hartford, New York
When it comes naturally, effective sponsorship doesn't need a label
The Little Oak Tree
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Joe H.
| Powell River, British Columbia
It takes loving care and plenty of light to grow an oak tree—and a sober alcoholic
We Agnostics
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Scott M.
| Farmers Branch, Texas
A Grapevine reader examines AA approaches to finding a God of our understanding
Another opportunity for growth
March 2022
| Emotional Sobriety
By:
Alexis C.
| Bowie, Md.
How did this mom’s day get so bad so fast? Luckily, she’d been sober a while and knew just what to do
Making Peace with the Holidays
December 2020
| Remote Communities + Sober Holidays
By:
Paul B.
| Oak View, Calif.
This Christmas Eve, a lonely newcomer learned that choosing joy was the way to go
Midnight to Midnight
December 2019
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By:
Bill K.
| Albans, Vt.
Twenty four hours a day, forty years later, happy, joyous and free
Special workers
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
By:
Leslie J.W.
| Scottsdale, Arizona
Why we pay people for certain jobs, but not for Twelfth Step work
Breaking the Chains
September 1966
By:
T. P. Jr.
| Hankins, New York
Step Discussion: Step Four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.