Making Amends
July 1979
By:
S. M.
| Joliet, Illinois
Clear away the wreckage of the past and begin to build more comfortable todays
The Man Who Wanted to Revise the Lord's Prayer
November 1976
By:
Dick W.
Change the Big Book? Change the program? No thanks, not me," says - From the August 1969 Grapevine
The Man Who Wanted to Revise the Lord's Prayer
August 1969
By:
Dick W.
| Van Nuys, California
Change the Big Book? Change the program? No thanks, not me," says
Pitcher’s Last Stand
September 2023
| Young & Sober
By:
John B.
| Holland, Michigan
A young beer drinker hits his last keg party and gets sober, thanks to the college newspaper
A Quarter Century Sober
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Alissa M.
| Highland Lakes, N.J.
As she fought for life and sobriety, what didn’t kill her made her stronger
Getting used to a new town
August 2022
| Sober Travel
By:
S.H.
| Virginia
After a stressful move, a member has to think out of the box to adjust to a brand-new home group
It’s Never Too Late
August 2021
| Seniors in AA
By:
Everett D.
| Glenview, Ill.
At 92, he’s still working the program and helping others every chance he gets. Now that’s happy, joyous and free
Dear Grapevine
July 2021
| The Annual Prison Issue
Dear Grapevine
February 2020
| Tough Times
Downhill Slide
August 2011
By:
Anonymous
She went into her first beer joint at the age of four and life was never the same
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
Game changer
December 2010
By:
SUSAN B.
| Alexandria, Va.
A hard-drinking father finds spirituality in the bottom of the ninth
A brilliant addiction
January 2010
By:
TRACI R.
| Fredericksburg, Va.
A writer goes from having it all to the hard floor of a jail cell
A Hole-in-one
August 2004
By:
Dave H.
| Hampton, Virginia
After a hole-in-one, things were going to be okay
If It Shouldn't Have Happened --It Didn't
February 2003
By:
Daniel A. D.
| New York, New York
He knew he was slowly dying, but losing his job was serious
Sponsor Relationships
November 1979
By:
E. S.
Everybody needs somebody to work things out<lbFrom the September 1975 Grapevine
Sponsor Relationships
September 1975
By:
E. S.
| Manhattan, New York
Everybody needs somebody to work things out
Self-pity Can Kill
February 1973
By:
J. W.
| Key West, Florida
We can weep, whine, or get drunk--or we can learn to accept