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The 3 R’s of Recovery

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Tracey M. | Albany, Ohio
Regain. Remember. Rediscover

Who Gets What

April 2021 | Fun in Sobriety
By: Irving M. | Washington, D.C
Miffed that his financial advice wasn’t followed, a member learns to let go.
According to Tradition Four, a group can do as they see fit

Surrender

January 2021 | Oldtimers!
By: Howard O. | Cambridge, Wis.
A moment on a winter day reminds him that if we just let go and give up
fighting we can let others help us fly again

Saddest Christmas Ever

December 2020 | Remote Communities + Sober Holidays
By: Vance O. | Marion, N.Y.
No job, no wife, no driver’s license or money. Here he was 30 days sober, in the cold, and now the AA meeting door was locked

On Top of the World

December 2020 | Remote Communities + Sober Holidays
By: Tandy W. | Anchorage, Alaska
On a remote island near Russia, a member lucks out and finds another alcoholic, whose AA lifeline is the phone

Calvin’s Prayer

September 2020 | Living Sober Group
By: Calvin M. | Argyle, N.Y.
I heard two things that night: “Come back” and “Pray, if you can.” I knew I was in a fix. But desperation led me to say this prayer anyway.

Welcome To 2020

September 2020 | Living Sober Group
By: Carole P. | San Francisco, Calif.
No meeting rooms? Share on camera? Unmute? How will we do this? COVID-19 kicked this old-timer’s program into high gear

My Monkey Mind

March 2020 | Puzzled
By: Ed L. | Wrightwood, Calif.
How right action stops his negative thinking and keeps him from swinging from the same old tree

The Magic and the Miracle

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Anonymous | Santa Monica, Calif.
Gratitude comes with working the program—and finding true belief

Watch Your Aim!

December 2019 | Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By: E.K. | Tucson, Ariz.
After a meeting takes a wrong turn, a member has a few thoughts about “principles before personalities”

What happened to Ted?

November 2019 | Grapevine Classics
By: Bob R. | Shelburne, Vermont

My guide to the wild west

August 2019 | African-American Alcoholics in AA
By: Kim S. | Boise, Idaho
Getting sober can be a wonderful journey with the right someone showing the way

The editor

May 2019 | Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
By: Bill M. | Downers Grove, Illinois

Business is not a bad word

February 2019 | Stories by Our Longtime Members
By: Billy N. | Buford, Georgia
One member says that anything less than good business practice in AA is just untreated alcoholism

The Sand Dollar

January 2019 | Stories for Day Counters!
By: Kristen C. | Tappan, N.Y.
Higher Powers often have interesting ways of revealing themselves, as this young alcoholic discovered one day at the beach

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Dear Grapevine

May 2024 | How the Steps Changed My Life

Dear Grapevine

March 2024 | Spanish-Speaking AA Members

Dear Grapevine

February 2024 | Getting Through Tough Times

The Experiment

January 2024 | Emotional Sobriety
By: Jeri W. | Yukon, Oklahoma
To help with Step One, they suggested she try some controlled drinking. So she did. Let’s see how it went

Dear Grapevine

September 2023 | Young & Sober

Dear Grapevine

April 2023 | AA & Families

Borrowing God

June 2022 | Stories by Longtimers!
By: E.A. | Northampton, Mass.
Every day she prayed to Kate’s God, not knowing if it would work.
Then one day, while looking at a beautiful sunrise, she knew

Dear Grapevine

May 2021 | Our Twelve Steps
Tears on a swing

Seemingly Miraculous

January 2021 | Oldtimers!
By: Bob S. | Eureka, Calif.
In a long life of sobriety the difficult challenges do come and go, but the good times are so worth it all

Dear Grapevine

December 2020 | Remote Communities + Sober Holidays

Halting Words

April 2020 | Home Group
By: Peter A. | Medford, Ore.
Who knows when contact with something bigger will come? For one man, it was in his morning AA circle

With lots of love

April 2020 | Home Group
By: Jerry A. | Gloucester, Va.
When a member loses his sight,
what does his home group do?
Why, give him a job, of course!

Dear Grapevine

September 2019 | Young & Sober

A new freedom

July 2019 | The Prison Issue
By: Jack R. | Marianna, Florida
When the right guy showed up to help him through the Fifth Step, his life changed forever

What my brother taught me

July 2019 | The Prison Issue
By: Nancy McCarthy | St. Louis, Missouri
A probation and parole officer learns to love AA from the man whose calls she dreaded most

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