Confessions of a cookie longtimer
February 2022
| Getting Through Tough Times
By:
Sandy A.
| San Diego, Calif.
Out of all the service positions in which she got to serve, this one was by far the sweetest
Any Lengths in Ghana
July 2015
A member gets a firsthand look at the early days of Alcoholics Anonymous in a city in Africa
Fitting In
She realized that she wasn't that different from everyone else and that she was at home in any AA meeting
The Stranger
August 1965
By:
Anon.
| California
She was not a newcomer--but a warm welcome would have helped
A Late Report From France
October 1960
By:
Ann M.
Title of the series of seventeen articles in Paris newspaper translates into literal English as: "The Newfoundland Dogs of Alcoholism.
Some Delegates Wanted To Buy A Building
June 1951
Some Random Sidelights From the Notebook of the Grapevine's Roving Kibitzer.
The son I gave up
July 2017
By:
Suzanne R.
| Sarasota, Florida
Drinking and partying began to take everything away, even something unimaginable
Web Exclusive: Finding Love Again on AA Campus
March 2011
By:
Robert M.
| Carrollton, Texas
The work in AA has helped this couple bring their relationship to a richer, deeper level.
I LIKED THE MEDICINE
March 1953
By:
D. A. S.
| Frederickton, New Brunswick
You have to live it, feel it, suffer it before you know it. . .and you have to admit it before you can recover.
Growing Stronger
July 2023
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Karen C.
| Oakland, California
A California sponsorship program is taking flight, helping more and more incarcerated members each day
I Found My God in Perryville Prison
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Kirsten M.
She found “the possibility of a God I could trust” in the unlikeliest of places
Free to explore
November 2019
| Grapevine Classics
By:
John M.
| Laguna Niguel, California
A lifelong spiritual seeker gets sober and continues his search for a Higher Power
Out of the Doghouse
April 2012
By:
Brenda N.
| Lakemont, Georgia
After years of hiding booze and driving drunk, she made a phone call to save her life
AA Takes Root in Khon Kaen
February 2009
By:
Johnny R.
| Khon Kaen
A member moves to a remote part of Thailand and helps get meetings started
A Solidier Comes Home
January 2007
By:
John T.
| Vancouver, Washington
What does it take to heal the deepest wounds?
Half-measures Highway
November 2006
By:
Anonymous
| Huntington, West Virginia
Good reasons to miss meetings
In the Heat of Anger
September 1983
By:
M. O.
| Manhattan, New York
An explosion of rage showed him that living sober is harder than existing drunk