Can’t Drink Away Grief
November 2022
| Fun in Sobriety
By:
Tommy G.
| Staten Island, N.Y.
A construction worker shares his journey through terrible loss and how the sobriety he built held
Going Down
June 2016
By:
Steve B.
| Hopewell Junction, N.Y.
He was escorted to the elevators the day he was fired. Then booze escorted him to AA
Sobriety-by-mail
June 1967
By:
Murray M.
In a New Zealand prison: Four walls enclose him day and night, but they don't keep out the AA message
Moments of Spiritual Awareness
June 1962
Sharp Decline
June 2015
By:
Donna G.
| Rochester Hills, Michigan
International success won't help when you can't get out of the bar
Step Six: Wherever And Whenever
June 2007
By:
David S.
| New York, New York
Unlikely riches and satisfied needs
Finding myself
January 2019
| Stories for Day Counters!
By:
Tereson D.
| New Orleans, Louisiana
An emotional journey to find her birth mother revealed a beautiful truth of her own
Where Do We Go From Here?
October 1988
A presentation to the 1988 General Service Conference by nonalcoholic Class A Trustee Joan K. Jackson
Alcoholism At Large
December 2007
By:
Alcoholism: Clinical & Experime
Drinking Often Spurs Move to Poorer Neighborhoods
We Share Common Ground
August 2025
| Atheist & Agnostic Members
By:
Ward B. Ewing
| Trustee Emeritus, past Chair (non-alcoholic) of the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous Ordained Episcopal priest, retired President of The General Theological Seminary From Grapevine, October 2016
A past General Service Board Chair shares his thoughts after attending an atheist and agnostic AA convention
What Happens Here
December 2024
| Remote Communities and Sober Holidays
By:
Billy G.
| New York, New York
We share common ground
October 2016
My Brother's Keeper
August 2014
By:
David S.
| New York, New York
He came to realize that he was powerless over both his own alcoholism and that of his brother
The Lost Commandments, the Dictionary, and AA
November 1986
By:
Bernard B. Smith
An excerpt from his opening address to AA's Fourth General Service Conference - From the June 1954 Grapevine
Yes To Sobriety
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Ken K.
| Brooklyn, N.Y.
In the aftermath of the tragic death of a sponsee, his sponsor reflects back on life, service, and relapse in AA
How Can We Help?
May 2004
By:
David T.
| Spartanburg, South Carolina
Welcoming someone into AA may not be the answer
Pop Saved Me a Seat
July 2015
A trip home to make an amend results in a wonderful blast from the past
A Warm Room on an Icy Day
July 2015
By:
Ray G.
| Knysna
On a January morning in Amsterdam, a man tries to sober up in a place he least expected