Skip to main content
  • Español

User account menu

  • Carry the Message
  • Podcasts
  • APPS
  • Contact
  • Log in
Shopping cart 0 items
header logo

Main navigation

  • Magazine
  • Archive
  • Get Involved
  • Store
  • Subscribe

Mobile menu

  • Magazine
  • Archive
  • Get Involved
  • Store
  • Subscribe

Search

Breadcrumb

Home Search
  • All
  • Articles
  • Audio
  • Events
  • Pages
  • Quotes

Taking Flight

July 2025 | AA Celebrates 90 Wonderful Years!
By: A.C. | Issaquah, Washington
Feeling defeated, a newcomer was heading straight for a beer. Luckily, a little feathered friend got in his way

The Big Easy Does It

May 2025 | Young and Sober
By: Phoebe M. | New Orleans, Louisiana
Getting sober young in a city known for intense drinking can be challenging. But she’s getting out there and doing it

Group Hug

December 2024 | Remote Communities and Sober Holidays
By: Gary C. | Arvada, Colorado
There’s nothing like some AAs stepping up, sharing the love and looking after one another

When Darkness Comes

June 2023 | Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
By: Steve M. | Raleigh, North Carolina
A member lovingly shares his thoughts after a sponsee takes his own life

Alcoholism Obscured

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Alan R. | Great Neck, NY
A successful lawyer, he never believed his heavy drinking was alcoholic—until a “spiritual intervention” at his favorite watering hole

Paging Bill W. to Gate Seven

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Doug D. | Orange County, CA
When “Friends of Bill” meet at the airport, both of them part a little more sober

Confessions of a cookie longtimer

February 2022 | Getting Through Tough Times
By: Sandy A. | San Diego, Calif.
Out of all the service positions in which she got to serve, this one was by far the sweetest

Big Smile, Bigger Heart

December 2019 | Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By: Tom Georgia | Albany, Ga.
He and the coach could not have been more different, but they made it work. Just ask Miss Myrna

My place in the world

February 2019 | Stories by Our Longtime Members
By: Jim F. | Devonport
No longer in the center of the universe, a longtime member in Tasmania is content to deal with things as they come along

Trouble ahead

February 2018 | Title Goes Here
By: Trina N. | British Columbia
Her morning prayer was to stay sober. Who knew it would be answered with flashing lights?

Spirits

August 2017
By: John M. | Chesapeake, Va.
After watching his father die of the same disease that possessed him, a man found a spiritual path out of the “age old malady” of alcoholism

A Tough Climb

August 2016
Filled with resentment and lots of prayer, a Missouri mom trudges to her daughter’s birthday and is met with an unexpected gift

Lesson in Faith

September 2015
By: Rex R. | Tinley Park,, Ill.
Down to his last dollars and full of fear, he turned to his Higher Power

Mary On the Go

August 2015
She used to hate traveling, but now that she's two years sober, she's hitting the road

Any Lengths in Ghana

July 2015
A member gets a firsthand look at the early days of Alcoholics Anonymous in a city in Africa

Pagination

  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹‹
  • …
  • Page 478
  • Page 479
  • Page 480
  • Page 481
  • Current page 482
  • Page 483
  • Page 484
  • Page 485
  • Page 486
  • …
  • Next page ››
  • Last page Last »

The Fundamentals--In Retrospect

November 1979
By: Dr. Bob
From the September 1948 Grapevine

Service Is the Reason

June 1979
By: M. C. | Winnipeg, Manitoba

How I Coped with a Deep Depression

October 1973
By: J. S. | Bedford Hills, New York
Recovery began with the act of doing nothing

The Fundamentals in Retrospect

November 1972
By: Dr. Bob
From the September 1948 Grapevine

The Easier, Softer Way

September 1972
By: R. W. | Van Nuys, California
Science may come up with that panacea for alcoholics, but most of us in AA like what we have

The Slip That Didn't Happen

July 1972
By: D. C. B. | Washington, District of Columbia
Where he had failed before, Antabuse forced him to wait until the crisis had passed

Return from Skid Row

A member recalls the fateful meeting with the man who became his sponsor

Fitting In

Alcohol helped him to have a more fluid social life until it ruined his entire life

My Name Is Charles

July 1968
By: C. D. | Flint, Michigan
An alcoholic's own story

40-hour Marathon Meetings

March 1968
By: Anonymous
. . .The long hours in marathon bid fair to open the heart. . .

My Name Is Tom

April 1964
By: T. F. C. | Ste. Dorothee, Quebec

Another Human Being

February 1962
By: L. T. | Malibu, California
The program and psycho-therapy meet in

Keeping It Simple

May 1960

The Greatest Gift of All

December 1957
By: Bill W.

Closed Meeting

August 1955
KEEPING IT SIMPLE

Pagination

  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹‹
  • …
  • Page 478
  • Page 479
  • Page 480
  • Page 481
  • Current page 482
  • Page 483
  • Page 484
  • Page 485
  • Page 486
  • …
  • Next page ››
  • Last page Last »

aagrapevine footer

Footer

  • Rep Resources
  • About Us
  • Web Policy
  • Contact Us
  • AA.ORG
  • Youtube
  • Instagram