Show Filters
Hide Filters

Steps, Traditions & Concepts

Magazine Issue

Month

Room in My Heart

November 2020 | Our Twelve Traditions
Today I decided to write out my thoughts and share them with someone I have learned to trust. That’s how we build bridges of trust and understanding.

Living My Life

November 2020 | Our Twelve Traditions
Life’s challenges keep unfolding for this old-timer.
So does the help we get when we reach out

Welcome to New York

November 2020 | Our Twelve Traditions
A couple and their three cats make a move to a big city where they build a new home in AA

Z-fects of Character

November 2020 | Our Twelve Traditions
I find that I’m getting distracted looking at the computer screen. And really...do I have to make that sandwich onscreen during the meeting?

Freshly Squeezed Sobriety

November 2020 | Our Twelve Traditions
Wearing orange juice cans and a wine-stained robe, she opened the door to AA. Because of Tradition Three, they opened the door to her

Feeling Safe to Share

August 2020 | LGBTQ+
Doing the Steps, learning to set boundaries and working with others helped her connect with life again

Remembering to Welcome All

August 2020 | LGBTQ+
The Steps help him look at his painful past and amend the way he treats others

Loving Myself

August 2020 | LGBTQ+
A lesbian member shares about acceptance, tolerance, relationships, God and staying sober in AA since 1979

Sentenced: A Good Life

August 2020 | LGBTQ+
An old-timer remembers the judge in the 1960s who sent him to Ed, who cracked open the gate to freedom

PO Box 1980

May 1978
Silent twelfth-stepping

CARRY THE MESSAGE PROJECT

The Carry the Message Project focuses on getting Grapevine and La Vina subscriptions to alcoholics in need. It's not necessary to know the recipient! Sponsor a subscription for someone behind bars, in a treatment facility, nursing home, or who is homebound.

Give a Gift Today!

SUBMIT A STORY OR ART

Have a desire to share? We are always accepting submissions.

share with us

BECOME A GRAPEVINE REP

Register to become a GVR and spread the word about AAGV.

Join now