My Conception of God
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Ellen D.
| Olive Branch, Miss.
Her Higher Power fills the AA rooms with “the loving spirit of good”
Tough Crowd
May 2023
| Home Group
By:
Robert P.
| Amity, Ore.
A member in Oregon fondly remembers the old geezers at his home group who liked to bark orders. Luckily, he grabbed onto Darrell
Open-minded
October 2016
A long-time member shares about the challenges of being an unbeliever and helping others along the way
Is This AA?
January 2008
By:
M.P.
| Pocatello, Idaho
An AA member questions dress codes for speakers
Doing What We Do Best
June 1994
By:
Bill H.
| New York, New York
TRADITION 6 - An AA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the AA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose
Doing What We Do Best
February 1982
By:
W. H.
| Manhattan, New York
Tradition 6 - An AA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the AA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose
Keeping It Complicated
August 1976
By:
Anonymous
| Manhattan, New York
How to break another person's anonymity while trying not to
Life Really Did Begin at 40
April 1968
By:
C. J. M., Jr.
| Manhattan, New York
It has been twenty years since that birthday and his life "slowly and surely has become richer
One Song At A Time
November 2025
| Early days of AA
By:
Landon H.
| Knoxville, Tennessee
This newcomer thought the fun was over, but Living Sober told him it wasn’t so. Time to get out the guitar
A million miles away
February 2018
| Title Goes Here
By:
Rick C.
| Boonsboro, Maryland
After years of drinking and searching for faith, AA helped him break free and find his place in the world
Treatment Facilities Newsletter
March 1993
What Do I Do Next to Stay Sober?
September 1968
By:
Bob N.
| Scarsdale, New York
Stay cheerful; stick with the winners; get busy; take the Twelve Steps
Dear Grapevine
July 2021
| The Annual Prison Issue
Not all is well
October 2021
| Cooperation With Professionals (CPC)
By:
Matt H.
| California
I was inside cooling down, and my wife came in from outside with a concerned look. “There’s a woman out front who fell,” she said. “I think she’s drunk.”
Early AAs Take Stock
November 2003
With a questionnaire in the Grapevine, a New York group helped identify the warning signs of alcoholism and provided the groundwork for E.M. Jellinek's famous studies of its progression
About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research and Treatment
September 1979
By:
Sean Milmo
Code of Islam
Around AA - Items of AA Information and Experience
December 1968
Report on Survey of AA Membership Study Is First Ever Made by Alcoholics Anonymous
Editorial
March 1953
Web Exclusive: Playing God
September 2011
By:
Mike D.
| Lutz, Florida
After years of not being able to stop drinking, he came to understand the importance of the Third Step
Slim to None
August 2011
By:
John F.
| Holbrook, New York
After several days in a cheap motel, he wasn't betting heavily on his chances for sobriety
How to Act at a Party
June 1960
Not even your glassy-eyed hostess cares when you tell her that you and Gin Barleycorn aren't on speaking terms
Case History of Someone You Know
April 1951
Continuous Efforts
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Betty G.
| Memphis, Tenn.
Self-examination, sponsorship and the Big Book add up to a daily reprieve four decades long