About Some Not So Magnificent Obsessions
June 1953
By:
S. McK.
| San Francisco, California
On what strange stuff both this our obsession feed, that it is grown so great?" (With apologies to Shakespeare)
Members of the Women's Organizing Committee
October 1944
Grapevine" in Bow
June 1944
Another Way to Live This Life
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Angie L.
| Tavernier, Fla.
Her Higher Power kept sending her clues that broke through her denial during one last weekend of drinking
Workaholic
October 2018
By:
Anonymous
| Ferna Lina Beach, Florida
This sober businesswoman’s career really took off, but her program ran out of steam
And she waits...
December 2016
By:
Kirie P.
| Brinnon, Washington
In a tiny rural village with no street lights and no AA, a woman brews a pot of coffee and reads
I Can Handle This
April 2016
On vacation in France, she lifted the glass to her mouth. What could possibly go wrong?
The Way The Cookie Crumbles
September 2022
| Young & Sober
By:
Mathew J.
| San Angelo, Texas
I went over to the vending machine. But out came oatmeal raisin cookies—not chocolate chip. Maybe God does watch my everyday activities.
Meeting Makers Can Make It
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Patricia B.
| New York, N.Y.
Whether online or face to face, AA meetings help sobriety grow
We’re in this Together
June 2020
| The Annual Prison Issue
By:
Sara S.
| Carbondale, Colo.
As the women shared their stories about the offenses they committed, the
question she asked herself was...
Didn’t we all?
question she asked herself was...
Didn’t we all?
10 things I wish I’d known
March 2020
| Puzzled
By:
Dan C.
| New York, N.Y.
If I can quiet my mind for just long enough and just shut up for a second, something better always crystallizes. I don’t need what I thought I needed.
Choosing to Decide
March 2020
| Puzzled
By:
Kyle N.
| Austin, Texas
He’s at the turning point. Can he give up the idea that he can run his life the way he always has before
The Difference Between Drunk and Sober
January 2020
| Spiritual Awakenings
By:
Judith K.
| San Francisco, Calif.
The difference between active alcoholism and sobriety? Like night and day
AA News
May 2019
| Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
Hurtful words
March 2019
| What’s On Your Mind?
By:
Sam M.
| Greensboro, North Carolina
Is it time to expand the scope of how our words might harm one another?
Ever-Changing Stories
May 2018
By:
Donna M.
| Sweetwater, Tenn.
When she understood that God’s plan for her might be different from the one she had in mind, she was able to accept the ever-changing story of her sobriety
Counting days with Santa
December 2017
| Issue Title Here
By:
John A.
| Fort Meade, Maryland
Out on a family shopping trip, a nervous newcomer encounters someone way too jolly
Gratitude As A Way Of Life
December 2016
By:
Don J.
| Orland Park, Ill.
A member finds a better way to share the joy than being a drunken Santa
Reflections On The Daily Reflections
September 2016
Are the Steps really “suggestions?” One brave AA takes a careful stroll through the minefield of “whose program is this, anyway?”
Who Are You Going to Call?
August 2016
Just weeks into sobriety, she moved to a new town, on a street lined with bars, and found herself a phone call away from a relapse
Clang of Steel
July 2016
Serious Business
June 2016