AA Around the World
April 1997
Adapted from the Final Report of the 14th World Service Meeting, held in New York City, October 1996
Around AA - Items of AA Information and Experience
August 1978
AA Literature and Service Materials Stay Up-to-Date
The 73 - year-old Newcomer
August 2021
| Seniors in AA
By:
Rae C.
| Winnipeg, Manitoba
For someone who couldn’t believe you could stop drinking after 70, she’s sure loving life now
Just in time
July 2021
| The Annual Prison Issue
By:
Tod C.
| Chino, Calif.
I felt goose bumps on my skin. I believe my Higher Power spoke to me that morning with that Grapevine magazine. God was telling me, “I’m here, man. I never left. I’ve been here all along.”
I Know I Cannot Do This Alone
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Bev S.
| Tuxedo Park, N.Y
When she found it in her car—and had no idea how it had gotten there—she knew the glove was pointing her to a new way of life
Ghosts of Meetings Past
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Bosco B.
| Midvale, Idaho
His program is peopled by those who are no longer with us, but live on in memory
Sober at 14
September 2020
| Living Sober Group
By:
Emma C.W.
| Philadelphia, Pa.
When I was a freshman in high school, my classmates were joining clubs and sports teams. I was stealing money to buy alcohol.
A majestic night
August 2019
| African-American Alcoholics in AA
By:
Chad P.
| Mount Vernon, Indiana
What was supposed to be just a ride home from a meeting turned out to be a show of a lifetime
Return to Jail
February 2019
| Stories by Our Longtime Members
By:
Yvette T.
| Columbus, Ohio
Sober now, she speaks at the prison she was once locked up in—and finds it to be a transformative experience
Land of the giants
December 2018
| Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities
By:
Bob W.
| Lafayette, Louisiana
They taught him who he was and how to live. They were the members who gave him his start
The biggest tip I ever got
October 2018
By:
Tom W.
| Santa Fe, New Mexico
In 1951, a 15-year-old boy delivered a telegram to a little house in Akron. He hadn’t a clue why he’d one day return
A Piece of Cake
June 2018
By:
Sara B.
| Chute-a-Blondeau, Ontario
What do a piece of cake and a 12th Step call have in common? Helping a suffering alcoholic
Journey to Sobriety
April 2018
By:
Martin K.
| Charlotte, N.C.
After six DWIs, he realized it was either the end of him or the end of his drinking. Which was it going to be?
Every chair matters
December 2017
| Issue Title Here
By:
Michael S.
| New York, New York
Thanks to his buddy Kevin, the meeting before the meeting became a beautiful thing
Jump start
April 2017
By:
Corey F.
| Soledad, California
The information he got in treatment about the program started this young man’s AA engine and put his sobriety in high gear
Big Sis
February 2017
By:
Barbara G.
| New Caney, Texas
Years of pent-up hurt and rage at her brother had gone far enough. So she prayed and picked up the phone
