What Ever Happened?
September 1976
By:
E. S.
| Manhattan, New York
Is our sophisticated search for "something else" leading us away from basic AA principles?
Paradox
August 1961
By:
H. W.
| Pleasantville, New York
If we don't "hold lightly" to the ego we can't "hold tightly" to the program
The Twelve Steps Revisited/Step 12
October 1963
By:
J. E.
| Guilford, Connecticut
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Road Trip From Hell
February 2026
| Getting Through Tough Times
By:
Gail P.
| Victoria, British Columbia
With no AA, dry as the desert, a drunken boyfriend in the car and a 21-hour drive, what could possibly go wrong?
A New Dad
June 2025
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Greg B.
| Herdon, Virginia
During a painful divorce, a newcomer father learns through Step Six to let go of fear and focus on the joy
Dreams of My Mother
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Carl A.
| Minneapolis, Minn.
His mother’s appearance in his dreams was no coincidence
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
Denial Got Me There
May 2018
By:
Peter G.
| San Antonio, Texas
It was a dark and stormy night…and he didn’t feel like going to a meeting. But somehow, his Higher Power led him to one
Leadership in AA: Ever a Vital Need
December 1976
By:
Bill W.
True as it was in the beginning, it is even more so today with AA membership tripled to over a million - From the April 1959 Grapevine
Our Experience Has Taught Us. . .
November 1956
The Professor and the Paradox
December 1990
At Wit's End
April 2018
Alcoholism At Large
December 2013
Alcoholism At Large
November 2007
By:
University of Texas at Austin, pres
Alcoholics with Cirrhosis Have More Brain Damage than Non-Cirrhotic Alcoholics