The View from Here: - Each Month a Group of Past Delegates to the General Service Conference Will Talk About the Traditions
November 1996
By:
Anonymous
| Saskatchewan
Shining for All the World to See
Ham on Wry
October 1992
One Wave at a Time
May 2026
| How the steps changed my life
By:
Randy T.
| Harkers Island, North Carolina
After a near drowning, he came to believe. Now at 65, he’s surfing and learning to meditate
The Best Little Step Meeting in New York
August 2025
| Atheist & Agnostic Members
By:
Brian L.
| Sunnyside, New York
Since 1978, this AA group has kept up that old Irish feeling with humor, fellowship and yes, shepherd’s pie
Freedom
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Jack W.
| Tucson, Ariz.
Owning a restaurant meant never having to run out of alcohol
An Amends to Remember
July 2024
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Carol V.
| Pensacola, Florida
She waited 40 years to make this right, and what she got in return was a friend and a big surprise
Up in Smoke
July 2024
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Garry and Renee J.
| Surprise, Arizona
Members out west find a fun and sometimes chilly way to gather in fellowship and embrace Step Seven
Indeed Miraculous
February 2024
| Getting Through Tough Times
By:
Thomas S.
| Arlington Heights, Illinois
Through AA, he found a new, more powerful relationship with a Higher Power that was with him his whole life
Love
November 2023
| Gratitude
By:
C.C.
| North Hollywood, California
The longer he stays sober, the more he learns the value of passing on that inner glow
Lucky in Peru
August 2023
| AA in the Military
By:
Lucky M. (Suerte M.)
| Brooklyn, New York
A trans AA member celebrates her two year anniversary in a beautiful place where the language of the heart is spoken
Speaking of Trauma
March 2023
| Get Into Service
By:
Anonymous
| Mo.
A longtime member shares his journey of buried wounds and the importance of getting outside help
This beautiful truth
January 2023
| Spiritual Awakenings
By:
Anonymous
| Cleveland miss, Mo.
A member raised in the Muslim faith shares her eye-opening journey with the Second and Third Steps
The Day I Unmuted
October 2022
| Relapse
By:
Tracy L.
| Ottawa, Ontario
Every day she kept logging in—often drunk. Then finally she spoke up and said those magic words
Making things possible
May 2022
| 60th Anniversary of the Concepts
By:
Chad P.
| St. Louis, Mo
Learning about the Concepts opened his eyes and helped him stay connected during the COVID pandemic
“Do You Really Have to ‘Wanna’?”
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Paul H.
| Chicopee, Mass.
When “wanting” it is not enough, sobriety can be an undeserved, but treasured, gift
Somehow We Did It
July 2020
| AA Around The World
By:
Cosmas S.
| Moldova and Calif.
An AA member in Moldova shares his journey to nurture local groups despite language barriers