Around AA - Items of AA Information and Experience
July 1971
By:
Anonymous
| Oregon
Spiritual Arithmetic
Material Girl
April 2013
By:
Betsy G.
| Houston, Texas
All the fancy things could not fix her insides
Editorial
November 1951
90 Years of Fellowship
July 2025
| AA Celebrates 90 Wonderful Years!
By:
Scott H. Class B (Alcoholic) Trustee, Chairman, General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous
Greetings from the Chair of AA’s General Service Board
It Works!
May 1990
By:
Leonard Blumenthal
| Edmonton, Alberta
Many AA members would not be sober without the help of nonalcoholics. In this issue, we have invited six friends of the Fellowship who work with suffering alcoholics to share their experience, strength, and hope with Grapevine readers.
All Things to All People? No!
August 1982
By:
D. B.
| Northfield, Minnesota
Sponsoring a nonalcoholic drug addict didn't work out
From Perfectionism to Perfection
May 1969
By:
M. D. B.
| Jackson, Michigan
An ex-perfectionist finds a new definition for the goal that once stayed beyond his reach
Alcoholism Is a Disease
August 1958
By:
E. S.
| Hartsdale, New York
The first of a series of "Beginners' Meetings"--to run from time to time--for newcomers to AA sobriety.
A Chaplain Looks at AA
April 1960
I Miss Jail
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Tyler J.
| Pikesville, Md.
During the Covid pandemic, the service that most kept him sober had to stop. He misses it
An Alky and His Checkbook Are Soon Parted
March 1961
By:
Anon.
| Palo Alto, California
but usually not soon enough
Hope in a Long Line
January 2018
| Sponsorship
By:
Margie M.
| Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
After years of abuse and drunken marriages, she followed her mom and daughter to a better life
Born to Raise Hell
January 2012
By:
Mary B.
| Menominee, Michigan
A drunken mom lost her kids—and herself—until a chance encounter with an old high school chum
AA Tomorrow
November 1998
By:
Bill W.
AA co-founder Bill W. gives some advice and has some projections for the future.
AA Tomorrow
November 1973
By:
Bill W.
Our co-founder sums up after 25 years of AA and looks into the future we are now living - From the Grapevine book AA Today, published on the occasion of AA's twenty-fifth anniversary
French Dis-Connection
October 2014
By:
Anonymous
Far from home and suddenly sponsorless, he learned the meaning of Don’t Drink No Matter What
Stuck in a funk
December 2010
By:
Laura S.
| Coral Springs, Fla.
Without Twelfth Step work, the Promises evaporate as quickly as they came
My Parents: AA
May 1961
By:
C. A.
| Los Angeles, California
How the Fellowship represents the "ideal" family relationship
Professing Alcoholism
June 1960
Why a member of our diplomatic corps found it desirable to break his anonymity abroad--and what happened after that
DREAM BIG
August 2009
By:
HAILI H.
| Austin, Texas
She was going nowhere fast until her soul cried out for help
Relationships Reconsidered
November 2013
Learning to practice the principles in all his affairs made all the difference