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
Then one day, while looking at a beautiful sunrise, she knew
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!
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
Higher Powers and Nonbelievers
February 2019
| Stories by Our Longtime Members
By:
Joe C.
| Toronto, Ontario
He was finally going to admit the fact that he was ‘happy, joyous and God-free.’ Would others in the rooms accept him?
Dear Grapevine
October 2018
The Courage to Come Back
July 2000
By:
Randy K.
| Dallas, Texas
This AA found himself at Dr. Bob's doorstep.
A Life Without Hope
November 1997
By:
Jack L.
| Fort Collins, Colorado
This skidrow drunk finally realized that his was not the only pain there was
Cunning, Baffling, and Powerful
July 1996
By:
Anonymous
| Albuquerque, New Mexico
The disease" claims another victim
Letting the Spirit Join In
November 1995
By:
Tom W.
| Buffalo, New York
STEP 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God <emphasis type="underline">as we understood Him,</emphasis> praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.