Stories

Steppers has made it possible for me to embrace AA's Responsibility Statement in ways I never could before--"when anyone, anywhere reaches out for help" has come to include anyone anywhere in the world! Currently I… Read More

Story AAGrapevine, November 2005 You should have seen the funny looks I used to get four years ago when I talked about doing Twelfth-Step work online. The old-timers especially used to look at me as… Read More

My home group has been together since the late 1980s. In 2010, due to family responsibilities some of us were “scattered” to three different states 1000 miles apart. We continued going to in-person meetings, but… Read More

The best $72 I ever spent was when I bought the internet package on my first cruise in 2017 and I was 7 years sober. I went with about 15 friends, and my roommate was… Read More

Even before Covid, I lived rurally overseas and used a more basic type of online meeting, as when I was first trying and failing to get sober, my sponsor said to me, 'You Sara have… Read More

One time I was traveling on Amtrak and we were stuck on the train. The food cart ran out of everything except alcohol. I was able to join a meeting on my phone and not… Read More

After 8.75 years of sobriety, I found myself decelerating and coasting....and we all know the only direction of coasting is d...o...w...n. So I determined to do 90 in 90 (as well as to put other… Read More

I was a power user of video conferencing at work for many years, but it never occurred to me that it would be possible to use it for AA meetings. And then the pandemic happened.… Read More

My Sobriety date is September 18th 2006. For the first five years it was really easy for me to go to meetings and work the program hard out because I had nothing other than recovery… Read More