A Celebration of AA’s 85 Years
July 2020
| AA Around The World
By:
Michele Grinberg
| Chair of the General Service Board, West Virginia
The chair of the General Service Board shares her love for AA’s language of the heart
The Miracles of Our Fellowship
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Rhonda Z.
| Eugene, Ore.
AA won’t cure her illness, but the profound joy it brings helps her survive
Dear Grapevine
January 2019
| Stories for Day Counters!
Dear Grapevine
April 2018
Broader and broader
July 2017
By:
Shari U.
| High Point, N.C.
Step Seven is where her sober highway widened to include others
Open-minded
October 2016
A long-time member shares about the challenges of being an unbeliever and helping others along the way
Broken Promises
August 2016
She always meant to take her son to the park, but her hangovers kept getting in the way
Desperate on New Year’s Eve
December 2015
There he sat, all alone feeling sorry for himself ... would he drink? Or would he reach out?
The Biggest, Meanest Dude I've Ever Seen
June 2015
By:
David S.
| Saugerties, New York
After his first prison commitment, an AA swears he’ll never do that again
The Pendant
June 2015
By:
Anonymous
After just one week sober, a newcomer treats herself—but little does she know she has already won the prize
Now I get it
February 2015
By:
Ricky D.
| Rochester, New York
Shaking and scared, a newcomer recalls his mom's early days in AA.
Dear Grapevine
October 2013
Re-Connected
October 2013
By:
Anonymous
So he didn’t have a blown fuse after all. He just had to plug back in
A Six-Week Tour in AA
September 2013
He went to help his daughter out and discovered that maybe he belonged there too
Enjoy the Ride
May 2013
By:
George F.
| Drums, Pennsylvania
Learning to have fun again was a trip of its own
Do We Need Each Other?
July 1976
By:
B. L.
| Manhattan, New York
The first words this suffering drunk heard in AA came back to him in AA's First Tradition
Entertaining Is Part of My Work
October 1975
By:
W. W. G.
| Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Or. . . How to succeed in business without really drinking
AA'S 40th Anniversary International Convention Denver, Colorado July 4-6, 1975
January 1975
By:
L. H.
| Denver, Colorado
This is the year!
Getting in Tune
August 1972
By:
F. J. T.
| Crescent, Missouri
There was discord in her life until she recognized what was best for her
Epilogue
March 1970
By:
J. A. B.
| Las Vegas, Nevada
A flop for years, she rewrote the last act and ended on a note of triumph
Why Don't We Talk About Sex?
November 1969
By:
P. S.
| Greenwich, Connecticut
Next to survival, it is the most powerful motivating force in our lives, yet we sweep it under the rug, says this writer
Responsibility Is the Name of the Game
November 1966
By:
D. W.
| Van Nuys
There are times when I plain and simply don't like it, but. . .
Tapping New Energies
April 1964
By:
B. T.
| Florida
Most of us continue living unnecessarily near our surface." <emphasis type="underline">William James</emphasis>
Lydia T., a "Special Case
October 1962
By:
L. T.
PARIS REPORT: Even the gendarmes very gently but surely asked this beautiful young French woman to spend 90 days in a psychiatric hospital. . ."on account of my special way of driving a car