Grapevine Daily Quote December 31, 2018
“Remembering to observe the Traditions of anonymity and nonendorsement, the AA member can carry AA’s message into every troubled area of this very troubled world.”
AA Co-Founder, Bill W., October 1947, “Traditions Stressed in Memphis Talk”, The Language of the Heart
Quote December 31, 2016
“Remembering to observe the Traditions of anonymity and nonendorsement, the AA member can carry AA’s message into every troubled area of this very troubled world.”
AA Co-Founder, Bill W., February 1958 “Problems Other Than Alcohol” The Language of the Heart
Quote December 31, 2013
“Remembering to observe the Traditions of anonymity and nonendorsement, the AA member can carry AA’s message into every troubled area of this very troubled world.”
AA Co-Founder, Bill W., February 1958 “Problems Other Than Alcohol” The Language of the Heart
A Dad’s Love
December 2025
| Sober Holidays & Remote Communities
By:
P.M.
| La Mesa, California
After years of drinking and partying, a son reconnects with his father, a true gift of AA
Dear Grapevine
November 2023
| Gratitude
Early Shaky Days
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
P.J. L.
| Epping, New South Wales
Achieving sobriety with the help of long-remembered words of other alcoholics, he discovered he was no longer “terminally unique”
One book’s journey
January 2020
| Spiritual Awakenings
By:
Julia D.
| Westfield, N.J.
The making of the book Our Great Responsibility: A Selection of Bill W.’s General Service Conference Talks (1951-1970)
This is the door you're looking for
October 2018
By:
Lori U.
| Portland, Oregon
She may not have been raised to end up on skid row, but she sure found her hope there
The Hole Within
September 2016
No matter how much he drank, the empty space inside of him could never be filled, until found the Higher Power he had always avoided
Dear Grapevine
September 2013
Good as Gold
September 2011
By:
Elliot T.
| Indianapolis, Indiana
A sober connection far more valuable than money and riches
Thoughts on the Third Tradition
December 2014
By:
Mark L.
| Bellingham, Washington
A member explains the importance of "the only requirement" in his sobriety
No Laughing Matter
April 2013
By:
Kris G.
| Sewickley, Pennsylvania
Her drinking became a big joke; then nobody thought it was funny
Dear Grapevine
March 2013
Web Exclusive: They Told Me: "To Drink is to Die"
June 2011
By:
Cahlen H.
| Idaho
A young member from a family devasted by the effects of alcoholism finds her way to AA.
Hey! I Need to Talk to You!
September 1978
By:
C. G.
| Kemah, Texas
The trouble with asking for help is that you just might get it
Activity Addicts
March 1975
By:
Paul M.
| Riverside, Illinois
If we can keep ourselves busy enough we won't have time to face ourselves
The High-bottom Drunk
June 1971
By:
W. G.
| Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Earth people usually equate 'alcoholic' with the skid-row bum, but we know there are many different types. Getting down to basics, Bill W. often opened a meeting with the simple greeting "Hi, drunks!
Hail, Perseverance Group of Tobago Island!
April 1968
By:
M. C.
| Pleasantville, New York
An AA writes gratefully of experience, strength, and hope shared at an Easter meeting on a "blessedly balmy island
Glossary of Golfing Terms
September 1965
By:
J. F. G. Jr.
| Shaker Heights, Ohio
Did drinking affect your golf? Or vice versa?
Dry But Not Sober
October 1963
By:
A. G.
| Chappaqua, New York
For seven years I went to meetings as a nonalcoholic and then one day the truth popped out