Hiding Empties
April 2016
By:
Vicki M.
| Fairhope, Ala.
The guy she was dating didn’t down beers like she did, so what else was she to do?
39 Reasons to Dance
September 2012
By:
Peggy B.
| New York, New York
She has never forgotten the Bill W. dinner that helps pay for the phones that saved her life
A Happy Holiday!
December 1952
By:
R. B. A
| New York City, New York
a hand reaches across the sea in AA's own "auld lang syne. . .
No amount of Razor Wire
December 2022
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By:
Bob L.
| St Louis, Mo.
Two members shared how their mothers were now asking their sober incarcerated sons for advice. I could not keep my self-constructed dam in place any longer.
Letter from the Editor
April 2021
| Fun in Sobriety
Alcoholism At Large
May 2020
| Getting Into General Service
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The Message
August 2018
By:
Signed: Grateful Garden Variety Drunk C.B.
At the treatment center, two women and a special message finally got through to one suffering alcoholic
Editors Letter
March 2018
The October 2011 Grapevine is Here
August 2011
This month's special section focuses relapse in recovery
Open for Business
October 2001
By:
Ray C.
| Mill Valley, California
...scarce an evening passed that someone's home did not shelter a little gathering of men and women, happy in their release, and constantly thinking how they might present their discovery to some newcomer." Big Book, page 159
Moments of Being
August 2014
By:
Elizabeth E.
| Albuquerque, New Mexico
With over 35 years of sobriety, she came back to the Eleventh Step and had a spiritual awakening
Keep the Change
September 2011
By:
Malkiel-Robert
| Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
A transition from drunk to sober, unworthy to deserving, woman to man …
Get a Commitment
March 2011
By:
Roxanne R.
| Valley Center, California
Her sponsor said she’d better start doing service if she wanted to stay sober
Puppet of Destruction
January 2011
By:
Kelly S.
| West Hempstead, NY
A promising young woman drinks herself past the point of no return
My Grandmother's Gift
February 2009
By:
Cathy P.
| Sheridan, Wyoming
As a newborn, a member helped keep her grandmother sober. Years later, her grandmother helped her.
Fear Gave Way to Faith
September 1989
By:
John H.
| Benoni
Step Nine - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Ala-cat
September 1983
By:
C. B.
| Hershey, Pennsylvania
It isn't just human beings who catch the "family disease
T
February 1971
By:
Dr. John
| San Diego, California
The rule of HALT is a reminder that can help us all along the road to recovery - The Essence of AA
A Royal Bottom
Wallowing in gin while watching the funeral of a princess, a dad finally wakes up to his own life
Special-speaker Syndrome
August 1968
By:
M. U.
| Brighton, Colorado
It feels terrible to be up there with the expectation you'll knock 'em dead