Dear Grapevine
June 2025
| Annual Prison Issue
What Happens Here
December 2024
| Remote Communities and Sober Holidays
By:
Billy G.
| New York, New York
Finally Free
July 2024
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Andrea N.
| Lakewood, Colorado
Once deemed a “menace to society,” she got sober in jail, did her time and is now going back in to help others
A mom they can rely on
August 2022
| Sober Travel
By:
K.T.
| Highlands Ranch, Colo.
She tried to be a good parent, but liquor owned her. Now she’s someone her children can trust
Dear Grapevine
April 2022
| What's On Your Mind?
Good Things to Come
September 2020
| Living Sober Group
By:
Brian S.
| Wyckoff, N.J.
Getting sober young wasn’t easy. But with a lot of help, he got in the car and hit the road for a long, wonderful life
What Living Sober Is All About
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Pamela R.
| Bend, Ore.
Beginning in fear, ending in hope: one alcoholic’s journey
Confessions of a high school cheerleader
September 2019
| Young & Sober
By:
Jennifer M.
| Columbus, Nebraska
When the cheering stopped, she made a play to join the winning team
Dear Grapevine
May 2017
Alley Cat
August 2012
By:
R.H.
| Nashville, Tennessee
He and his furry buddy went through early sobriety together
God drove me there
July 2009
By:
Mathew B.
| Wyoming
Craving booze, he heads for the liquor store and ends up at an AA meeting instead
Ready to Handle it
March 2021
| Making Amends
By:
Philip C.
| Louisville, Ky.
Though he’d made amends to his wife the best he could, one day while cleaning, he lifted a lid and found forgiveness and truth
A Journey Toward Responsibility
September 2020
| Living Sober Group
By:
Annemarie M. Excerpt from Grapevine article, September 1998
| Raynham, Mass.
How Tradition Nine put her on the path to discover the wonderful world of AA beyond the group, and a host of spiritual principles
One Year And Counting
December 2019
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By:
Fred M.
| Allen, Texas
A newcomer joyfully enumerates the way the program has changed his life
The need to be right
June 2019
| Letting Go of Resentments
By:
Anonymous
| Ann Arbor, Michigan
He tried all the tools he could think of to end a huge resentmemt toward his wife—except one
Lost in the English Rain
May 2015
By:
Chad P.
| Grand Island, New York
Far from home and unable to find a meeting, he got a helping hand
East of the Red River
March 2014
By:
L.L.
| Medicine Hat, Alberta
An alcoholic discovers you can sink a lot lower than living under a bridge
Payback
March 2013
By:
C.B.
| Bristol, Pennsylvania
An old-timer remembers the best bargain he ever made
Sunsets--Not My Idea
May 2012
By:
Brooke C.
| Ranchester, Wyoming
Having all power didn't get her very far
A Tale of Two Sisters
August 2011
By:
Beverly R.
| Fayetteville, North Carolina
They couldn't be more different, yet their bond is unshakeable
Miracles: Yours and Mine
February 2004
By:
Dave L.
| Prineville, Oregon
He thought they were only for the very good people, the saints
Justice
October 1983
By:
L. W.
| Newport, Rhode Island
In sobriety, the present can transform the past