Getting Off The Merry-Go-Round
August 2024
| Dating & Relationships
By:
K.D.
| Island Park, New York
Home from a Grateful Dead tour to start college, she spun way out of control with liquor and drama. It was time to stop
Becoming Willing
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Bruce W.
| Byron, Ga.
In AA meetings all over the world, he hears the language of the heart
Business Trip
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Addison K.
| Waterville, Vt.
Newly sober and on her first business trip, she finds God’s hand in a raucous AA meeting
Hole in my soul
July 2023
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Cindee S.
| Coos Bay, Oregon
As she struggled to identify, it was sharing about the emptiness inside that finally opened this mom’s heart
Making the rounds
February 2023
| Making Amends
By:
Lennox S.B.
| San Diego, Calif.
With his sponsor’s help, he headed for an ex’s funeral to make a few amends. Turned out there were more than a few
The best son I can be
February 2023
| Making Amends
By:
Morgan J.
| Annapolis, Md.
With his sponsor’s help, a member learns to make living amends for the next 21 years of his mother’s life
One Breeze at a time
July 2022
| The Annual Prison Issue
By:
Peter F.
| Philadelphia, Pa.
Quarantined in a plywood prison “fishbowl,” he made the decision to spread his wings and be free
No Matter What
June 2022
| Stories by Longtimers!
By:
Anonymous
| Brooklyn, N.Y.
Getting sober for this nonbinary trans alcoholic was not easy. And it was about to get harder
Getting connected
December 2021
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By:
Paula D.
| Peconic, N.Y.
Helping members plug in remotely during COVID-19 gave her valuable lessons she’ll never forget
Letting mom in
December 2021
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By:
Wendy G.
| New Cumberland, Pa.
Sometimes we make tough choices when we get sober. But there’s always a chance for forgiveness when we try
My friend in the outback
September 2021
| Young & Sober!
By:
Terrie S.
| Alexandria, Va.
The new virtual meeting she found wouldn’t interfere with the COVID “date nights” with her husband, would it? Guess again
Sober at ground zero
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
By:
T.Y.
| Olathe, Kan.
A courageous sober doctor fights the good fight in the COVID-19 wards of a hospital near Wuhan
Spot Check On I-94
October 2020
| Money and Sobriety
By:
Andy A.
| St. Peters, Mo.
Trying to hold it together with a car full of rambunctious kids, a sober dad gets more and more lost. Time for Step Ten!
A Celebration of AA’s 85 Years
July 2020
| AA Around The World
By:
Michele Grinberg
| Chair of the General Service Board, West Virginia
The chair of the General Service Board shares her love for AA’s language of the heart
Isolation? Are You Kidding?
July 2020
| AA Around The World
By:
Ruth H.
| Slinger, Wis
Who said change is easy? Staying sober and sane through a health crisis requires all the Steps she’s got
The Big Blues
April 1963
By:
J. W.
| River Edge, New Jersey
The way out may lie beyond the physical portals of AA
My Name is..." Miles
January 1963
By:
M. E.
| Dayton, Ohio
Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly, But coward-like with trembling terror die." Shakespeare
The Blessing of an Open Mind
August 1962
By:
B. K.
| Traverse City, Michigan
Accepting the fact that we are powerless often calls for some doing--first we learn to listen and then we listen to learn
The Antidote for Fear - Prudence, Trust, and Faith
November 1959
By:
Bill W.
Each year during the season of giving thanks we try to bring you a few new and meaningful words on an old but ever deepening subject: the Twelve Traditions of AA. We heard none better in the past year than Bill W.'s closing words to the General Service Co
Miracle in Detroit
July 1957
By:
Dan
| Detroit, Michigan
Another way of reaching "the millions who don't yet know