What Goes Around Comes Around
July 2019
| The Prison Issue
By:
Anonymous
| Missouri
It took more than 20 years—and all Three Legacies—for him to become the AA member and man he’d envisioned
Step 12: Standing in the Gap
April 2019
| Relapse
By:
Anonymous Travelers Rest.
| S.C.
“Having had a spiritual awakening,” she tries to bridge the gap between current and future AA members
Finding myself
January 2019
| Stories for Day Counters!
By:
Tereson D.
| New Orleans, Louisiana
An emotional journey to find her birth mother revealed a beautiful truth of her own
Vigilance
December 2018
| Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities
By:
Kevin S,
| Gastonia, North Carolina
At every port, the booze once flowed freely. But now that he’s sober, he’s on full alert
Dear Grapevine
May 2018
Bloodshot Eyes
January 2018
| Sponsorship
By:
Mark T.
| Santa Fe, New Mexico
Shaking and nauseous, he puts on a dirty shirt to go out. He has to. He’s all out of liquor
Falling in love with the universe
September 2017
By:
Edward B.
| Moraga, California
Way out in the Nevada desert, among the stars and colorful characters, he found his sober crew
Blurred ambition
June 2017
By:
David S.
| New York, New York
A drunken writer with dreams of success places two huge bets that change his life
Unwanted visitor
May 2017
By:
Corey B.
| Soledad, California
From his prison cell, a member writes about the harrowing drunken night he still can’t recall
Out of the foxhole
April 2015
By:
Patrick D.
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
After his pink cloud went away challenges hit, and isolation led him down a tunnel of white-knuckling pain
Weekend in jail
January 2015
By:
Melissa W.
| Granbury, Texas
With lice shampoo and a stiff orange suit, she was now alone with HP and Step One
Getting to the Root
August 2014
By:
Katie G.
| Burnsville, Minnesota
Not smart enough, not thin enough, not good enough. The Steps helped her dig up the truth
Those Cornhusker Blues
April 2014
By:
Mel B.
| Toledo, Ohio
Sitting in a hotel room in downtown Lincoln, he found himself ruminating on some experiences from decades before
Man of Many Masks
April 2013
By:
Rodney
| Fort Lauderdale, Florida
There was the Wall Street Rodney, the college Rodney, the gay Rodney. Where would it end?
Dear Grapevine
January 2013
Bloodshot Eyes
January 2018
| Sponsorship
By:
Mark T.
| Santa Fe, New Mexico
Shaking and nauseous, he puts on a dirty shirt to go out. He has to. He’s all out of liquor
Falling in love with the universe
September 2017
By:
Edward B.
| Moraga, California
Way out in the Nevada desert, among the stars and colorful characters, he found his sober crew
Blurred ambition
June 2017
By:
David S.
| New York, New York
A drunken writer with dreams of success places two huge bets that change his life
Unwanted visitor
May 2017
By:
Corey B.
| Soledad, California
From his prison cell, a member writes about the harrowing drunken night he still can’t recall
Out of the foxhole
April 2015
By:
Patrick D.
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
After his pink cloud went away challenges hit, and isolation led him down a tunnel of white-knuckling pain
Weekend in jail
January 2015
By:
Melissa W.
| Granbury, Texas
With lice shampoo and a stiff orange suit, she was now alone with HP and Step One
Getting to the Root
August 2014
By:
Katie G.
| Burnsville, Minnesota
Not smart enough, not thin enough, not good enough. The Steps helped her dig up the truth
Those Cornhusker Blues
April 2014
By:
Mel B.
| Toledo, Ohio
Sitting in a hotel room in downtown Lincoln, he found himself ruminating on some experiences from decades before
Man of Many Masks
April 2013
By:
Rodney
| Fort Lauderdale, Florida
There was the Wall Street Rodney, the college Rodney, the gay Rodney. Where would it end?
Dear Grapevine
January 2013
Just a Nice Lady Who Drank Too Much
September 2011
By:
Barbara C.
| Northport, Florida
That's what she thought of her drinking until she went to her first AA meeting
Sober Sailor
August 2011
By:
Tommy C.
| Port Angeles, Washington
A seafaring man finds sobriety and the greatest adventure of his life in AA
Down the drain
October 2010
By:
CECIL R.
| Albuquerque, N.M.
One last binge ends a Navy medic's drinking days
SCARED SOBER
June 2010
By:
PHILIP P.
| Sheffield, Mass.
Drinking to feel comfortable works—at least for a while
