A Sign for Our Times
December 2005
By:
Ken C.
| Wilmington, North Carolina
A CPC/PI Officer gets creative
The Avenue
April 2003
By:
Tom Mac D.
| Braintree, Massachusetts
A stroll through the old neighborhood, where nothing is different, but everything is changed
Losing the Desire to Drink
December 1978
By:
R. G.
| Fort Knox, Kentucky
Beyond the desire to stop drinking is an even more positive goal
The Fast Learner
June 1978
By:
B. P.
| Seattle, Washington
She couldn't understand why they spent so much time on one Step
Do You Have the Granulated Sugar?
January 1974
By:
Louise S.
| Chico, California
Let us remember the unbelievably stupid questions we had to ask in the beginning, and let us always be tender with the newcomers who are afraid to ask them
Twelve Steps and the Older Member
June 1956
By:
J. E.
| Bloomington, Indiana
Step Twelve: <emphasis type="italic">Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.</emphasis>
The End of the Party
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By:
R.S.
| Dana Point, Calif.
A world traveler finds her way home to AA
Off The Elevator
November 2007
By:
Karen C.
| Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania
An AA steps off before bottom
The Hands of AA
November 2005
By:
Anonymous
| Wheeling, West Virginia
From the October 1991 Grapevine
Step Five: the Importance of Being Choosy
May 2005
By:
Anonymous
| New York, New York
One AA's search for the right person to listen
I've Done the Twelve Steps--now What?
March 1973
By:
Paul M.
| Riverside, Illinois
There are no endings in AA, only new beginnings
The Deaf Alcoholic
August 1963
By:
Grapevine's West Coast Editor
Members of this new group really have to use helping hands
Under the Broadway Bridge: Part One
November 2005
By:
Hugh J.
| Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Part Two will appear in the December 2005 issue
Grand Ideas
june 2026
| Young & Sober
By:
Jimmy C.
| Peculiar, Missouri
A member shares how Tradition Six helped him stop trying to fix AA and get a new perspective on money, property and prestige
How I Got Sober Later In Life
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By:
Pat B.
| Chicago, Ill.
What she didn’t know about AA would fill a highball class, but she learned that she was never too old to find a new way of living
Mother's Day
May 2016
A once-drunken daughter takes her mom a special gift and ends up getting one herself
Scene of the Crime
July 2026
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Laura B.
| San Francisco, California
In 1968 a drunken college student passed out in a big house in San Francisco. Years later she discovered how important that building was
Keeping The Faith
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By:
Chris W.
| Oneonta, N.Y.
A priest finds faith and fulfillment in AA
Letter from the Editor
May 2026
| How the steps changed my life
Back from the Darkness
May 2026
| How the steps changed my life
By:
Will J.
| Waco, Texas
Although his drinking took him to the very bottom and far away from everyone, his sobriety got some people’s attention
The Truest Intimacy
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By:
J.G.
| East Rockaway, N.Y.
Learning how to fill “that God-sized hole”