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

Thirty Years of Grapevine History

June 1974
By: L. H. | Denver, Colorado
The Grapevine has played a vital role in the development and growth of AA - Another Anniversary

A Gift That Surpasses Understanding

April 1970
By: A Priest
The spiritual experience in AA is something quite apart from formal religion, says this priest

The Spiritual Angle of AA

October 1955
By: Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker | Pittsburgh, Penna.

Grapevine Daily Quote August 26, 2018

“Ego was being replaced with self-respect ... resentment and hatred were being replaced with tolerance and understanding ... fear was being replaced with trust ... loneliness and self-pity were being replaced with gratitude and love -- all because I was working the program to the best of my ability and wasn’t drinking.”

“Above All, an Alcoholic,” Toledo, Ohio, September 1982, In Our Own Words: Stories of Young AAs in Recovery
Sign up to receive GV's Daily Quote via email

Quote August 26 2013

"Ego was being replaced with self-respect ... resentment and hatred were being replaced with tolerance and understanding ... fear was being replaced with trust ... loneliness and self-pity were being replaced with gratitude and love -- all because I was working the program to the best of my ability and wasn't drinking."

Toledo, Ohio, September 1982 "Above All, an Alcoholic" In Our Own Words: Stories of Young AAs in Recovery
Sign up for the free daily email
Talk about this on What's On Your Mind

Quote April 11, 2015

“Practicing the Twelve Traditions to the best of my ability has become just as vital a part of my personal recovery program as practicing the Twelve Steps. The Steps teach me how to think and act. The Traditions keep my personal program of recovery simple, well-balanced, and healthy.”

Fanwood, N.J., January 1991 “Service: A Framework for the Future,” The Best of the Grapevine, Volume 3
Sign up to receive the Daily Quote via email

The River's Flow

July 2015
After diving back into the program, a member with 27 years returns to a familiar wooded spot and learns a beautiful lesson

I'm OK to Drive

March 2015
By: Anonymous
She found out the hard way how dead wrong she was

No One Home

July 2013
By: Anonymous
With wife and kids gone and no furniture in sight, the lawn was the only place left to land

Out of the Storm

January 2012
By: Lee T. | Dawsonville, Georgia
A newcomer explores Step One and the five ways he was definitely powerless and unmanageable

Forever Nonprofessional

August 2002
By: Paul C. | Oceanside, California
TRADITION EIGHT

The All American Housewife

August 2000
By: Chris D.C. | Fishkill, New York

Between the Lines

July 2000
By: Martin W. | Limon, Colorado

You Can Go Home Again

January 2000
--<emphasis type="italic">an Interview with Al K.</emphasis>

What Meeting Are You Going to Tomorrow?

November 1999
By: Chris R. | Santa Rosa, California

Pagination

  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹‹
  • …
  • Page 643
  • Page 644
  • Page 645
  • Page 646
  • Current page 647
  • Page 648
  • Page 649
  • Page 650
  • Page 651
  • …
  • Next page ››
  • Last page Last »

The End of a Sad Soap Opera

February 2012
By: LaGene W. | New York, New York
With her life in shambles and knowing nothing of AA, she remembered a sober character on a tv show and picked up the phone

Soldier Down

October 2011
By: David A. | Kaiserslautern, Germany
German beer taught this sergeant who had the real power

Love on the Rocks

August 2011
By: Jay K. | South Carolina
An AA relationship is put to the ultimate test when a wife's affair with his sponsee is revealed

Early AA in the Cariboo Mountains

August 2011
By: Buster H. | British Columbia
A big game hunter accepts that he is powerless over alcohol and becomes the first member of AA in a remote area of British Columbia

Stories My Father Told Me

June 2011
By: David C. | Costa Mesa, California
After a lifetime of drinking, a man looks back at the lessons his father tried to teach him about alcoholism

Alcohol, The Greatest Disability of All

June 2011
By: Russ K. | Nampa, Idaho
He realized that living life as an alcoholic was a lot worse than living with the disability of having only one arm

An Unencumbered Man

June 2011
By: David S. | New York, New York
AA had ruined his drinking; now it ruined his isolation

Pancake king

October 2010
By: NORM H. | Cary, N.C.
He guarded his griddle like it was made of gold . . . then his ego got the better of him

Sidelined by remorse

September 2010
By: J.M. | Kansas City, Mo.
After his brother's suicide, he blames himself and drops out of AA

The Measure of Success

September 2008
By: Gretchen P. | Toledo, Ohio
It's not what you accomplish, but what you overcome

Better Than I Deserve

June 2007
By: Ben F. | Costa Mesa, California
A boy becomes a man under the tutelage of AA

Tradition One: You Call This Unity?

January 2006
By: Dorothy H. | Piscataway, New Jersey
from the January 1992 Grapevine

Self-reliance: a Skeptic's Story

October 2005
By: C.M. | Los Altos, California
An alcoholic tries to "AA her way" through depression

Through the Finish Line

June 2005
By: Anonymous
You can't win unless you keep going

My Name Is Bertha. . .

June 2004
By: B.D. | Louisville, Kentucky
After appearing in the Grapevine, this story was included in the Third Edition of the Big Book under the title "Another Chance." - March 1969

Pagination

  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹‹
  • …
  • Page 643
  • Page 644
  • Page 645
  • Page 646
  • Current page 647
  • Page 648
  • Page 649
  • Page 650
  • Page 651
  • …
  • Next page ››
  • Last page Last »

aagrapevine footer

Footer

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