Card-carrying thumper
May 2019
| Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
By:
Jim H.
| Largo, Florida
By following the directions in the book, he became a passionate lifetime fan
Worn out
April 2019
| Relapse
By:
R.A.
| Columbia, Missouri
Ripped and stained, it’s a precious memory of his last drunk. It’s not just any shirt
Lying on my resume
October 2018
By:
James L.
| Nashville, Tennessee
The “secrets of success” he heard at meetings taught him a valuable lesson about honesty
Dear Grapevine
August 2018
Dear Grapevine
July 2017
Dear Grapevine
March 2017
Dear Grapevine
February 2017
Can’t Stop
December 2016
By:
Coleen F.
| Jacksonville, Alabama
Her compulsion to drink made her hide vodka everywhere—in drawers, in old coats—even on the highway
We share common ground
October 2016
St. Louis Blues
August 2016
Too much booze and a nasty fistfight got this 20-year-old mother a one-way ticket to a psych ward
Dear Grapevine
May 2016
The Opera Singer
June 2015
By:
Bonnie L.
| Antioch, California
She left the stage and hid in the bottle. Now she faces the music and sings a new tune
Brooklyn Dreams
April 2015
By:
Michael C.
| New York, New York
Trading drunken nightmares of a dark canal for the Serenity Prayer and a brighter life
Lean Into It
March 2015
By:
Jenn H.
| Chicago, Illinois
A leap in the deep end and some AA tools helped her get past her lifelong fears
Painting the City
January 2014
By:
Jason K.
| Albuquerque, New Mexico
As a newcomer, he had AA and a backpack of spray paint. Now he’s a GSR and his life is full color
All the Love in the World
January 2014
By:
Lana B.
Nothing could fill the emptiness until she sought help to stop drinking
Worrywart in the Mountains
January 2014
By:
Gloria K.
| Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Sometimes when we question things, we get very specific answers
Surrender, Not Submission
November 2013
After a relapse, she changed the way she practiced the program
Off the Wall
October 2013
By:
T.W.
| Fairfield, California
One guy thinks there's a better way to remember our favorite members
Whole Lot of Ready
March 2013
By:
Tim P.
| Saint Paul, Minnesota
Diagnosed with cancer, a member embraces the program as he puts himself in God’s hands
Story Archive: Welcome?
April 2011
By:
C.G.
| Crystal Springs, Florida
When a wet drunk shows up at a meeting
Planting the seed
February 2010
By:
APRIL A.
| Muskegon, Mich.
An AA forgives a badly behaving coworker, then later has an opportunity to help him
For the Birds
February 2009
By:
Carol A.
| Solola
Living in a foreign country put this bird-watcher's program into perspective
No One Knew HE WAS HOME
December 2008
By:
Lisa M.
| Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Once on the same path, an AA grieves her cousin's death from alcoholism
FROM THIS POINT ON
July 2008
By:
Robert H.
| Neudorf, Saskatchewan
AA in a Saskatchewan prison over forty years ago