I Didn't Think You Could Do Him Much Good
December 1957
CHRISTMAS 1944 IN THE GRAPEVINE - The fifth in a series of highlights
The Rules Were OK for Others
September 1953
By:
Z.W.
| Clayton, Missouri
The story of a woman who thought: "I knew all the pitfalls and would be able to avoid them.
Active duty
February 2022
| Getting Through Tough Times
By:
R.H.
| Bend, Ore.
Returning home from war was tough, and getting sober and busy in AA was just the mission he needed
Up From Coal Country
December 2019
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By:
Ed M.
| Bloomsburg, Pa.
Quarterback, student, military dropout, bellhop. He kept digging his way to the bottle
Jumping to Conclusions
October 2017
By:
Susan H.
| Ashland, Ore.
Wild kids next door were causing trouble and she had to do something. She had no idea she was leaping headfirst into Step Ten
Strapping Myself In
April 2015
By:
Michael J.
| Albany, Oregon
The ups and downs of a super young AA
If This Is Prayer, It Isn't So Bad
February 2012
By:
Alan L.
| Salt Lake City, Utah
It can work, even if you don't have a Higher Power
A Mother and Her Son
July 2011
By:
Connie S.
| Colorado Springs, Colorado
After getting sober herself, she learnt that she was powerless over the alcoholism of others
Death in the mirror
March 2011
By:
Beverly W.
| Boca Raton, Florida
Her fast track to the morgue is averted by a spiritual experience
There was my proof
January 2010
By:
FRED G.
| Lethbridge, Alberta
An agnostic demanding evidence of God is handed a beautiful flower
Order Of The Court
November 2007
By:
Brian C.
| St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin
A judge starts the ball rolling
Twelve Suggested Points For AA Tradition
November 2007
By:
Bill W.
The first version of the principles that still guide AA groups
I Took the Eighth
March 1964
By:
Dick W.
| Van Nuys, California
Too many fifths and a high-flying act led to a real-life courtroom scene
Alcohol and Your Brain
March 1963
By:
R. G. Bell, M. D.
An MD's review of some of alcohol's effects on the mind and personality
How "White" Is a "White Lie"?
September 1962
By:
Dr. O. Hobart Mowrer
A psychiatrist comments on "the honesty part
Who Do You Think You Are?
July 1962
By:
L. C.
| Detroit
Through practicing the Steps we learn that our ego-image is not fixed or static
AA in the Theater
June 1960
Players and playwrights can mask their drinking problem for just so long. Then fame turns to notoriety--and worse
Buy the Band a Drink
June 1960
The hard-drinking music maker has no excuse for riding the alcoholic bandwagon, this working composer and musician believes
The Whisper of Humility
November 1956
By:
Earle M.
| San Francisco, California
In observance of "Traditions Month"--as November was unofficially adopted throughout AA at a time of Thanksgiving for the blessings of our Fellowship--we are pleased to present again, from the March 1955 Grapevine, an article that does an unsurpassed job
Twelve Steps and the Older Member
February 1955
By:
J. E.
| Bronxville, New York
Step Four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
AA and 1954
January 1954
An Inventory of a year's AA and non-AA programs <lbA Grapevine Milestone Report
This I Believe
January 1953
By:
H. D. B.
| Ann Arbor, Michigan
A CASE HISTORY OF PROGRESS FROM DILEMMA