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Party Guy

January 2024 | Emotional Sobriety
By: Ed L. | Wrightwood, California
Many nights after the bar had closed, he’d still be downing whiskey shots. Oh yeah...the wife and kids

Just in Time

October 2023 | Mid-Sobriety Challenges
By: C.R. | Columbus, Georgia
Full of rage at 20 years sober, a mail carrier gets a special delivery from her Higher Power

Tough Crowd

May 2023 | Home Group
By: Robert P. | Amity, Ore.
A member in Oregon fondly remembers the old geezers at his home group who liked to bark orders. Luckily, he grabbed onto Darrell

No defense

October 2022 | Relapse
By: Dolly A. | Old Orchard Beach, Maine
As her meetings slipped away, the wine started looking good. Then one day she reached for the glass

Forgive Quickly Laugh Easily

April 2022 | What's On Your Mind?
By: Caroline M. | Novato, Calif.
A mom shares how she found purpose in a place where her heart feels at home

A Disease That Settles

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Tina C. | Athens, Ala.
How does General Service keep us sober? She counts the ways

Guilding light

October 2021 | Cooperation With Professionals (CPC)
By: Ron B. | Costa Mesa, Calif.
A member shares some powerful thoughts about AA’s patience, resilience and creativity during COVID-19

Everything Is Possible

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Brittany G. | King of Prussia, Pa.
Alcoholics Anonymous, she realizes, is a program of ‘we’

Icing on the Cake

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Anonymous | Phoenix, AZ
She has spent her sobriety working tirelessly to bring the word of AA inside prisons. Then, one day, she received an unexpected gift

Sobriety and My Spiritual Journey

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Mike H. | El Cajon, Calif.
If he stays connected, his Higher Power always provides “a door to a new and better place”

Wet in a Dry Country

December 2020 | Remote Communities + Sober Holidays
By: Lynn W. | Houston, Texas
A social worker puts on her AA hat and says a few prayers to help an alcoholic on the other side of the world

Why we give

October 2020 | Money and Sobriety
By: Brian C. | New York, NY
A former Intergroup treasurer shares how AA changed the way he thinks about money and giving back

At Home in Bangalore

July 2020 | AA Around The World
By: Baxter J. | Gainesville, Texas
Far away in India for work, this Texan discovers a powerful new meaning of language of the heart

The Miracles of Our Fellowship

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Rhonda Z. | Eugene, Ore.
AA won’t cure her illness, but the profound joy it brings helps her survive

The Hummingbird

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Ann P. | Scottsdale, Ariz.
It took a trapped and fragile creature to remind her that trust was essential to her sobriety

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Sick Puppies

July 2024 | Annual Prison Issue
By: Michael N. | Soledad, California

Keeping My Identity

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Amy A. | North Reading, Mass.
Finding the missing piece

Always A Path Forward

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Kendra M. | Del Mar, Calif.
Her Higher Power opens a new door for her just as the last one seems to close

AA Words And AA Kindness

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Bob G. | Sarasota, Fla.
In a time of great need, AAs come together

Clean Plates, Calm Head

November 2023 | Gratitude
By: Macs S. | Scottsdale, Arizona

Way Beyond

September 2023 | Young & Sober
By: Amanda F. | Oakland, California
Getting sober young brought the gifts early on—but the best gifts were ones you couldn’t touch

An Old-Fashioned Twelfth Step Call

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Debbie D. | Concord,, Calif.
Giving this kind of call helps keep you from receiving it

The Question of Clubs

June 2023 | Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
By: Linda W. | Libertyville, Illinois
What’s the connection between clubs and AA? When is it affiliation?

Katie And My Story

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Renee W. | Star Lake, NY
Helping a friend take her first steps toward AA sometimes means “doing what we can do and then turning it over”

I just said yes

March 2023 | Get Into Service
By: Cynthia S. | Seattle, Wash.
I hit bottom during my kids’ teenage years. Going into juvenile detention centers has been a way of giving back and showing up for teenagers.

3000 Sober Sisters

January 2023 | Spiritual Awakenings
By: Jen R. | Chicago, Ill.
She used to drink at women. Now she’s trading numbers, doing service and making lifelong friends

Stranded in North Dakota

January 2023 | Spiritual Awakenings
By: Jerry M. | Thompson Falls, Mont.
I was feeling pretty jumpy. Excusing myself, I set out across the abandoned Interstate through the howling wind and snow toward the lights of the truck stop.

Getting the service bug

August 2022 | Sober Travel
By: Irving M. | Washington, D.C.
Land ho! If you stick around in the service pool long enough, your willingness to serve will be noticed

Shame of the Rocks

July 2022 | The Annual Prison Issue
By: E.M. | Amarillo, Texas
Have a hard time not romanticizing the drink? Here’s one way this guy remembers

It’s A Wonderful Life

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Snow P. | Boca Raton, Fla.
More than four decades of sobriety—and life just keeps on getting better

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