Locked Out
April 2026
| Getting into General Service
By:
J.R.
| Weymouth, Massachusetts
With a few months sober, he needed to get a new sponsor. He had some ideas on how to do it— and so did his wife
Dear Grapevine
March 2026
| AA & the Family
My Parachute
November 2025
| Early days of AA
By:
Anonymous
How the Living Sober book helped this day counter make a safe, sober landing
Higher Powered
May 2025
| Young and Sober
By:
DJB
| Wyckoff, New Jersey
A bumper sticker got her attention, but it was the kindness of members and her childhood religion that helped her with Step Two
Dear Grapevine
March 2025
| Sober and Out
Dear Grapevine
November 2024
| The Gift Of Gratitude
Dear Grapevine
September 2024
| Young and Sober
Dear Grapevine
January 2023
| Spiritual Awakenings
Dear Grapevine
October 2022
| Relapse
Dear Grapevine
December 2021
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
The Lake
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Kyle F.
| San Antonio, Texas
In the depths of his alcoholism, he found a way back to the place where he’d once been happy….
AA Etiquette
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Jack M.
| Libertyville, Ill.
The finer points of meeting behavior from an AA with half a century’s sobriety
Pleasures of Reading
August 1946
By:
R. E. B.
| Greenwich Village, New York City, New York
GEOFFREY CHAUCER OF ENGLAND by Marchette Chute (Dutton, $3.75)
A family affair
August 2010
By:
Alan D.
| Pascoag, R.I.
After surrendering, this closeknit family accumulates a total of 178 years of sobriety
Radical Reformation
November 1997
By:
Dr. Dave
| Naples, Florida
A Professor of Religious Studies Finds AA
Guilt
December 1974
By:
Paul M.
| Riverside, Illinois
There really is such a thing as guilt, and we have a specific program for dealing with it
An Alcoholic's Letter to His Son
June 1968
The important part, this father writes, is how it all begins
Chapter XXI . . . Continued
April 1945
Concluding Chapter XXI, begun in the March <emphasis type="italic">Grapevine. September Remember</emphasis>, by Eliot Taintor (a writing team, one of whom is an A.A.), will be published April 16th, by Prentice-Hall.
The Tool Box
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
James B.
| Darlington, Wis.
Successfully navigating sobriety with a toolbox all his own