Don't Change the Program!
November 1998
By:
Anonymous
| San Francisco, California
From the December 1953 Grapevine
Don't Change the Program!
December 1953
By:
Anon.
| San Francisco, California
A "young upstart" pleads
Too Smart
December 2025
| Sober Holidays & Remote Communities
By:
Esther N.
| Bremerton, Washington
She was a social worker with a master’s degree in human behaviour. Why would she need AA?
Next Stop Freedom
May 2021
| Our Twelve Steps
By:
Sally T.
| Wilmington, Del.
How a chance encounter with a stranger on a train put a newcomer on the right track to do the Steps
Dan’s Story
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Danny G.
| Magalia, Calif.
Escaping pain, putting down the drink and finding a life at last
Out of the Dreamworld
June 1978
By:
B. M.
| Saratoga, California
Learning to live in the now brought her
A Good Cry At The Alcathon
June 2020
| The Annual Prison Issue
By:
Lisa Q.
| Bronx, N.Y.
Holding wrinkled tissues stained with mascara, a newly sober mom feels the love of a home group that has embraced her
About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research, and Treatment
March 1984
By:
American Journal of Psychiatry
The Very First Drink
So Worth It
January 2024
| Emotional Sobriety
By:
B.B.
| Mississauga, Ontario
A member in Canada shares his long wonderful story of relationships, sponsors and living the good life
Reflections of Sobriety
March 1978
By:
C. C.
| North Hollywood, California
Our new selves are mirrored in the eyes of our loved ones
A Night in Paris
February 1967
By:
Anonymous
If you want an unusual experience in the City of Lights try the AA way
A Week in the Life of Lisa
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
By:
Kaycee F.
| Brown Deer, Wis.
The call to service unites a group of AA women around one troubled soul
Wherever I Am
August 2022
| Sober Travel
By:
Debbie J.
| Salem, Ore.
Many cruise lines have “Friends of Bill” meetings. I’ve met people there from all over the world. I still talk to a woman I met more than seven years ago on my very first sober cruise.