The Alcoholic Celebrity
September 1976
By:
Anonymous
| Los Angeles, California
Suddenly, personal publicity became a strange and disquieting wine
Tradition Week a Suggestion for Thanksgiving
November 1974
By:
Bill W.
Written a quarter-century ago, these words carry a message for us today - From the November 1949 Grapevine
The Big Book Tells It like It Is
March 1972
By:
C. D.
| El Monte, California
If you really don't know how we recover, you can look it up
About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research and Treatment
July 1971
By:
M. E. S.
Book Review - 'Drinking Problem?'
Book Fair Fiasco
A confrontation at work provided a newcomer with an opportunity to practice acceptance
Around AA - Items of AA Information and Experience
November 1968
By:
Anonymous
| California
Vulgarity and Racism at Meetings
Around AA - Items of AA Information and Experience
November 1967
By:
AA General Service Board
AA'S 1967 STATUS REPORT
Discussion Subject For Closed Meetings
August 1954
Other Subject for Discussion
April 1954
Each month this department will present a typical closed meeting discussion subject, with suggestions for other topics. Reports of interesting discussions are welcome.
11th Step
August 1971
By:
R. A. S.
| Tucson, Arizona
Sought through prayer meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Pennies From Heaven For Kevin
April 2017
Years of alcoholic despair followed the wrenching death of his young son, but AA, and the mysterious appearance of a penny, save his life
AA Around The World
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Anonymous
| Scottsdale, Ariz.
Traveling sober, she finds gratitude in meetings, sober people—and Grapevine
Living with Fear
August 2022
| Sober Travel
By:
Manuel P.
| Albuquerque, N.M.
A marine, dealing with past trauma, shares how AA stopped his drinking and gave him a little peace
Sobriety Is A Choice
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
M.M.
| Peekskill, N.Y.
Discovering community in AA through the message of “we”
On Top of the World
December 2020
| Remote Communities + Sober Holidays
By:
Tandy W.
| Anchorage, Alaska
On a remote island near Russia, a member lucks out and finds another alcoholic, whose AA lifeline is the phone
Pass the gravy
November 2019
| Grapevine Classics
By:
Bill K.
| Santa Rosa, California
There’s nothing like a Thanksgiving dinner to put the Third Step to the test
Frequent contact
May 2019
| Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
By:
David L.
| New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Some favorite passages in the Big Book help a father get through the darkest days of his life
Laughter is Recovery
October 2018
By:
Joni V.
| Burlingame, CA
The comforting sound of laughter echoing down a hallway meant that the AA room she was about to enter for the first time was a safe place
To break or not to break
November 2017
| Issue Title Here
By:
Scott D.
| Hope Mills, North Carolina
When it comes to telling others that he’s in AA, whether in person or through his computer, he looks to our Twelve Traditions
One requirement
March 2017
By:
Kelsey R.
| Indiana
People and groups may have their rules, but the Third Tradition tells us exactly what’s needed to be a member—a desire to stop drinking
It Takes a Village
May 2016
Where the Trees Once Grew
June 2015
By:
Vikki R.
| Yuba City, California
Though the peaches gave way to concrete and steel, it remained a place to plant beautiful seeds
The May Issue of Grapevine Is Here!
May 2015
AAs share their experiences doing service with CPC in this month's special section
True North
March 2015
By:
Ralph B.
| Seattle, Washington
How an old-timer found his HP on the high seas