Web Exclusive: A St. Patrick's Day Business Trip
July 2011
By:
Dana M.
| Lebanon, New Hampshire
An AA uses the tools of the program to stay sober while traveling with work colleagues
Strawberry pie ambush
May 2010
By:
MARY S.
| Overland Park, Kan.
A home group and two 'mother hens' keep a new AA on track and active
A Long, Dry Drunk
February 2006
By:
Loren B.
| Bozeman, Montana
An alcoholic's suffering ends with a raised hand
What's the Big Deal?
August 2005
By:
Bill S.
| Hopkins, Minnesota
A longtimer reflects on his first celebration
A Matter of Pride
February 2004
By:
Craig M.
| Warrensburg, Missouri
He had to find his own way to sobriety
A Tale Of Two Alkies
November 2003
By:
Mike H.
| Ventura, California
They were my brothers and closer than I knew
The Persistence of Delusion
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Tom F.
| Fort Bragg, Calif.
He was certain he could control his drinking through willpower alone. Fifty years passed before he got sober….
The Kinship of Common Suffering
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Michael O.
| New York, N.Y.
A moving and thoughtful meditation on one man’s Higher Power
Wet in a Dry Country
December 2020
| Remote Communities + Sober Holidays
By:
Lynn W.
| Houston, Texas
A social worker puts on her AA hat and says a few prayers to help an alcoholic on the other side of the world
Welcome to the big top
November 2020
| Our Twelve Traditions
By:
Paul C.
| Oceanside, Calif.
Lawyers, pilots, young people and more—step right up! Tradition Four is in center ring
Spot Check On I-94
October 2020
| Money and Sobriety
By:
Andy A.
| St. Peters, Mo.
Trying to hold it together with a car full of rambunctious kids, a sober dad gets more and more lost. Time for Step Ten!
Meetings, Meetings, Meetings
January 2020
| Spiritual Awakenings
By:
Anonymous
| Amherst, Mass.
A perfect depiction of why “meeting-makers make it”
No longer a victim
June 2019
| Letting Go of Resentments
By:
Janyce M.
| Ameliasburg, Ontario
With a little prayer and Step work, she learned to let go of the anger she had about her ex
On the grass plains of Kenya
December 2018
| Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities
By:
Debbie E.
| Portland, Oregon
For a woman in Oregon, sobriety made a lifelong dream of working with elephants come true
Group Inventory: A Privilege and a Duty
September 2018
By:
Mel C.
| Toronto, Ontario
Bringing your group together on a regular basis for formal reflection and inventory taking helps your group—and AA as a whole
From Fear to Faith
August 2018
By:
Susan G.
| Columbia, Md.
Five life lessons from a woman who has taken a long journey from the chaos of the drinking life to the faith that sobriety can bring
Trusting my GPS
July 2017
By:
Cathy W.
Far from home and needing a meeting, a sober teacher took action and let her Higher Power lead the way
Counting days with Eddy
November 2016
Sometimes gratitude can come from the most heartbreaking places
In good company
June 2016
By:
Holly H.
| Altoona, Pa.
She took a leap of faith into her first sober rafting trip and her HP supplied the extra paddles
A Year of Tuesdays
September 2015
Her life used to be punctuated by drinking, now it's measured in meetings