AA Is Getting Too Organized!
February 1961
By:
Anonymous
| New York, New York
So thinks a conservative old-timer But the Fellowship is the only place where both "conservatives" and "radicals" can win--at the same time
Three-way Marriage
February 1959
One Boy's Life
December 2025
| Sober Holidays & Remote Communities
By:
Gurney W.
A Grapevine editor’s son recalls a story he wrote in 1961, times with his dad and how AA saved his family
4 Times the Love
August 2025
| Atheist & Agnostic Members
By:
Laura W.
| Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
A tough biker chick shares the love she got from the sponsors who taught her about living
Mystery Man
March 2025
| Sober and Out
By:
Urban D.
| Birmingham, Alabama
Whoever showed him kindness on the stairs that day helped give this alcoholic another 38 years of life
Obsession, Lifted
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Anonymous
| Wilsonville, OR
Just like that, it was gone. Or so she thought
The Tools of Sponsorship
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Tara C.
| Kingwood, TX
With the help of her sponsors, she is never alone
Fear not
October 2021
| Cooperation With Professionals (CPC)
By:
C.P.
| Mount Vernon, Ind.
It's hard for me to recognize fear right when it arises, but I have a loving God who reminds me that even dumping a bunch of fears in inventory form is progress.
Grandpa’s Promise
July 2021
| The Annual Prison Issue
By:
Charley R.
| Watertown, Wis.
The journey to have his shortcomings removed turned out to be a gift from the one he loved most
An unexpected call
June 2020
| The Annual Prison Issue
By:
J.D.
| Big Lake, Minn.
My phone rang at 3 in the morning. The voice on the other end was crying.
It was my father. Seventy-two hours later, I was in my parents’ home.
It was my father. Seventy-two hours later, I was in my parents’ home.
Listen and Learn
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Beverly F.
| Tucson, Ariz.
A former pro softball player learns to live all over again in the rooms of AA
Watch Your Aim!
December 2019
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By:
E.K.
| Tucson, Ariz.
After a meeting takes a wrong turn, a member has a few thoughts about “principles before personalities”
The Bug
May 2017
His father warned him that alcoholism was part of his make-up, but it took him two different careers to discover he had "the bug"
It's Never Too Late
January 1981
By:
C. C.
| North Hollywood, California
At seventy he discovered that
You Can't Kid Around with Kids
September 1975
By:
C. H.
| Fairfield, Connecticut
With youngsters, a straight line is the shortest distance to the point
AA'S General Service Conference
May 1971
By:
R. K.
| Washington, District of Columbia
Bern Smith saw it as providing "a permanent haven" for all the alcoholics yet to come
What Does "Walk Humbly" Mean?
February 1963
By:
Rev. Thomas Simpson
Excerpts from a sermon by the Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Newark, Ohio--a good friend of AA
AA Around the World
March 1958
By:
Al G.
FROM THE NETHERLANDS ANTILLES <lbNews, comments and letters from about AA's worldwide outposts and centers--gleaned from letters to the Grapevine and General Service Headquarters, and from the "AA Exchange Bulletin," published monthly by GSH