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
Church Bash
February 2013
By:
Anonymous
A pastor asks the Fellowship to be more considerate about his faith
A New Kind of Love
April 2012
By:
Brenda M.
| Boise, Idaho
In sobriety, she learned how to love herself and others
A Miracle Happened That Day
August 1979
By:
P. B.
| Douglasville, Georgia
At her first meeting, she lost all desire to drink
Tolerance
June 1978
By:
R. G.
| Fort Knox, Kentucky
Let's apply it to groups as well as to individuals
No Man Is an Island
July 1967
By:
B. G.
| Forest Hills, New York
Concern for others has opened the way to God for her
Helpful Household Hints
February 1950
By:
R.W.
| Buffalo, New York
a non-alcoholic wife can make AA life much easier
Another Way to Live This Life
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Angie L.
| Tavernier, Fla.
Her Higher Power kept sending her clues that broke through her denial during one last weekend of drinking
No Longer Alone
May 2020
| Getting Into General Service
By:
David S.
| New York, N.Y.
With a sponsor’s tough love and unconditional acceptance, he finished his Fifth Step and got back into life
Making Things Right
September 2024
| Young and Sober
By:
Tom L.
| Albany, Georgia
A dad cleans up the past with his family, starting with a nerve-racking but wonderful trip to the Ozarks with his boys