Surrender
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
By:
Howard O.
| Cambridge, Wis.
A moment on a winter day reminds him that if we just let go and give up
fighting we can let others help us fly again
fighting we can let others help us fly again
Saddest Christmas Ever
December 2020
| Remote Communities + Sober Holidays
By:
Vance O.
| Marion, N.Y.
No job, no wife, no driver’s license or money. Here he was 30 days sober, in the cold, and now the AA meeting door was locked
Calvin’s Prayer
September 2020
| Living Sober Group
By:
Calvin M.
| Argyle, N.Y.
I heard two things that night: “Come back” and “Pray, if you can.” I knew I was in a fix. But desperation led me to say this prayer anyway.
Welcome To 2020
September 2020
| Living Sober Group
By:
Carole P.
| San Francisco, Calif.
No meeting rooms? Share on camera? Unmute? How will we do this? COVID-19 kicked this old-timer’s program into high gear
An unexpected call
June 2020
| The Annual Prison Issue
By:
J.D.
| Big Lake, Minn.
My phone rang at 3 in the morning. The voice on the other end was crying.
It was my father. Seventy-two hours later, I was in my parents’ home.
It was my father. Seventy-two hours later, I was in my parents’ home.
My Monkey Mind
March 2020
| Puzzled
By:
Ed L.
| Wrightwood, Calif.
How right action stops his negative thinking and keeps him from swinging from the same old tree
The Magic and the Miracle
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Anonymous
| Santa Monica, Calif.
Gratitude comes with working the program—and finding true belief
Watch Your Aim!
December 2019
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By:
E.K.
| Tucson, Ariz.
After a meeting takes a wrong turn, a member has a few thoughts about “principles before personalities”
My guide to the wild west
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
By:
Kim S.
| Boise, Idaho
Getting sober can be a wonderful journey with the right someone showing the way
Business is not a bad word
February 2019
| Stories by Our Longtime Members
By:
Billy N.
| Buford, Georgia
One member says that anything less than good business practice in AA is just untreated alcoholism
The Sand Dollar
January 2019
| Stories for Day Counters!
By:
Kristen C.
| Tappan, N.Y.
Higher Powers often have interesting ways of revealing themselves, as this young alcoholic discovered one day at the beach
10 years sober
December 2018
| Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities
By:
Mike G.
| Madison, Missouri
There in the basement on his plywood bed, he was going to be OK. Something had changed
Crazy for service
August 2018
By:
Vera F.
| Bend, Oregon
A district Grapevine rep discovers a wonderful world of service, meeting others and carrying the message
Family Circle
March 1954
By:
Ruth T.
| Alderwood Manor, Washington
A DAUGHTER THINKS <lb<emphasis type="italic">As non-alcoholic mates and families see the AA Program. . .</emphasis>
Lest We Forget
October 1953
Excerpt from the fourteenth printing of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous," pages 84-86
AA Associates
August 1951
By:
AA Associates
| San Diego, California
San Diego Non-AAs Celebrate Fifth Anniversary
The Prairie Provinces
May 1951
By:
H. A. H.
| Regina, Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan. . .Alberta. . .Manitoba. . .this is the great central plain that runs to the Rockies. Twelfth-steppers on the range. . .ready for anybody's personal stampede of trouble. . . . . . . . .