Detour
October 2019
| Is AA Accessible to all who need it?
By:
Toby T.
| Springfield, Illinois
On an icy road, the five headed north for a big night of AA. Turns out a more valuable night awaited them
Two Gifts
March 2017
The first sound he heard, shuffling down the hall of the detox in pajamas and paper slippers, was laughter. But where could it be coming from?
Letter from Finland
November 2013
After a childhood corroded by alcohol, she turned to it as an adult to dull the misery
Pain and progress
September 2009
By:
WENDY D.
| Arlington, Texas
A new mother struggles with staying sober
Our primary purpose
May 2009
By:
ANONYMOUS
| Hartsdale-Ardsley, New York
From the November 1956 Grapevine
Hope Springs Eternal
December 1997
By:
Mickey H.
| Springville, Utah
In the June Grapevine, we issued a call for articles on working with wet drunks. We received a number of good stories, not only on doing this important Twelfth Step work, but also on the experience of being a wet drunk. You'll find one such story below an
We're Going to Do Something About Profanity!
January 1970
By:
D. C.
| Fitchburg, Massachusetts
The blue atmosphere at some meetings is turning many people off, says this writer
Anonymity and the Social Networks
An AA discovers a way in which her anonymity is threatened by an online social group
Promises to Keep an AA Mother Declares a Dividend
September 1960
By:
M. C.
| Pleasantville, New York
Letter from Finland
November 2013
After a childhood corroded by alcohol, she turned to it as an adult to dull the misery
Pain and progress
September 2009
By:
WENDY D.
| Arlington, Texas
A new mother struggles with staying sober
Our primary purpose
May 2009
By:
ANONYMOUS
| Hartsdale-Ardsley, New York
From the November 1956 Grapevine
Hope Springs Eternal
December 1997
By:
Mickey H.
| Springville, Utah
In the June Grapevine, we issued a call for articles on working with wet drunks. We received a number of good stories, not only on doing this important Twelfth Step work, but also on the experience of being a wet drunk. You'll find one such story below an
We're Going to Do Something About Profanity!
January 1970
By:
D. C.
| Fitchburg, Massachusetts
The blue atmosphere at some meetings is turning many people off, says this writer
Anonymity and the Social Networks
An AA discovers a way in which her anonymity is threatened by an online social group
Promises to Keep an AA Mother Declares a Dividend
September 1960
By:
M. C.
| Pleasantville, New York
Ebby
September 1999
By:
Mel B.
| Toledo, Ohio
Ebby had been enabled to bring me the gift of grace because he could reach me at depth through the language of the heart. He had pushed ajar that great gate through which all in AA have since passed to find their freedom under God."--Bill W., AA Grapevine