Letter from the Editor
April 2024
| Happy Birthday Big Book!
About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research, and Treatment
November 1983
By:
The Alcoholism Report
Insurance Progress 1981-84
A.A'.s Country-wide News Circuit
June 1945
Open Up!
February 2022
| Getting Through Tough Times
By:
Anonymous
| Cranston, R.I.
What? No meeting today? He was new and now desperate—but he wasn’t alone
The Notebook
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Katy R.
| Brooklyn, N.Y.
Her grandfather died sober, and left behind a notebook that showed her how “to be”
One Among Many
March 2018
By:
C.B.
| Bend, Ore.
One enthusiastic AA had service positions in multiple home groups, until her service sponsor helped her understand that less can actually be more
My Last Amend
June 2014
By:
Anonymous
After 40 years and a beautiful life, an old-timer returns to her mother’s grave
Can I Buy You a Drink?
August 1995
By:
Joan B.
| Toronto, Ontario
This AA member tried to buy Bill W. a drink--and got an earful of AA instead
Requirements Beyond Sobriety
March 1974
By:
Zander M.
| Greensboro, North Carolina
Some reflections on the wearing of two hats and some suggestions on AA attitudes
Letter from the Editor
February 2025
| Longtimers
With No One Left In The House
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Susan H.
| Ashland, Ore.
A mid-life drinking crisis brings her to AA
Divided I Stand
November 1968
By:
F. C.
| Manhattan, New York
Many a spouse joins AA only to find that the search for sobriety brings new problems in family relations. Here, three members share their experience in making necessary adjustments
Bottoms Up!
October 1947
Mended Hearts
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
By:
Mark E.
| Chesapeake, Ohio
Sometimes “willing to make amends” can take a long time. But he kept praying and trying and the healing came
Letter from Finland
November 2013
After a childhood corroded by alcohol, she turned to it as an adult to dull the misery
Pain and progress
September 2009
By:
WENDY D.
| Arlington, Texas
A new mother struggles with staying sober
Our primary purpose
May 2009
By:
ANONYMOUS
| Hartsdale-Ardsley, New York
From the November 1956 Grapevine
Hope Springs Eternal
December 1997
By:
Mickey H.
| Springville, Utah
In the June Grapevine, we issued a call for articles on working with wet drunks. We received a number of good stories, not only on doing this important Twelfth Step work, but also on the experience of being a wet drunk. You'll find one such story below an
We're Going to Do Something About Profanity!
January 1970
By:
D. C.
| Fitchburg, Massachusetts
The blue atmosphere at some meetings is turning many people off, says this writer
Anonymity and the Social Networks
An AA discovers a way in which her anonymity is threatened by an online social group