Filling Up
June 2022
| Stories by Longtimers!
By:
Paul L.
| Columbus, Ohio
I was really steaming when I turned the car off and started to fill up my tank. Just then, I heard a lady on the other side of the pump ask me if I could help her.
True to Ourselves
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
By:
Angela P.
| Mesa, Ariz.
A surprise discovery reminds one member how important it is to share our stories. We never know who they might help
A pillow, a blanket & hot soup
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
By:
Lee Y.
| San Antonio, Texas
At his end, with nowhere to go, an alcoholic gets a helping hand from someone from the “other side of town” reached out
Online Sobriety
May 2019
| Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
By:
Barb C.
| Endicott, N.Y.
She hated computers, but finding AA online forums gave her the courage to return to the program after a long relapse
Better than Kentucky bourbon
October 2018
By:
Anonymous
| St. Louis, Missouri
With a gut feel and a few wild guesses, some hardworking AAs start a national corrections conference
100 days to go
July 2017
By:
Michelle L.
| Portland, Oregon
The recovery she was getting inside with this group of AA-loving women was time well spent
Am I Responsible?
June 2014
By:
Ed M.
| St. Louis, Missouri
Did you know that the Responsibility Declaration was written by an editor of Grapevine? A member gives a brief history
Preen Like a Peacock
January 2013
By:
T.W.
| Fairfield, California
He learned the hard way that being right is not the way to fly
Keeping Spiritually Fit
March 2012
By:
Gabriela R.
| Lynnwood, Washington
An AA reflects on some of the teachings of the Big Book
Christmas Comes But Twice a Year!!!
December 1950
By:
The Deacon
JINGLE, JINGLE, JINGLE OR, 21 DAYS IN THE MERRILY CLINKING TILL
Knowing When to Leave
August 2022
| Sober Travel
By:
Carole H.
| Arvada, Colo.
Lost in the prestige of a highly stressful job, she used the AA tools to learn what was really important
How AA Started in Panama
October 1996
The following article is based on a 1954 memoir of the General Service Office in Panama, written by an early AA member there.
Alcoholics in This 'Wonderful World of Chemistry'
September 1974
By:
A physician member of Alcoholics Anonymous
| Anaheim, California
This doctor has learned there is little he can do for alcoholics without the help of AA
Finally Home
June 2024
| Happy Birthday Grapevine!
By:
Olly D.
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
He drank to belong, yet alcohol took him away. But the day he raised his hand, he was in
Feel, Deal, Heal
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Briggs C.
| Albuquerque, N.M.
A three-word phrase that he didn’t understand—until he spent some quality time in the program
People, places and soup
February 2017
By:
Mary Ann R.
People, places and soup After an earlier close call with liquor, a newcomer orders food that couldn’t possibly get her drunk