Every Bachelor Needs Company
August 1977
By:
J. O'B.
| Manhattan, New York
Even if it is only a beautifully ugly basset hound
When the Big "I" Becomes Nobody
November 1975
By:
Harry M. Tiebout, MD
From the September 1965 Grapevine
My First Alcoholic Patient
September 1974
By:
Frank A. Seixas, MD
A 19-page section of sharing by members of the medical profession
It Began with Acceptance of Me
January 1972
By:
G. C.
| Boulder, Colorado
And he went on to discover that there are many kinds of acceptance in AA
An AA Doctor Opens His Heart
December 1971
By:
D. G. M., MD
| Montreal, Quebec
Young people solving their problems remind him that only a closed mind can hurt our Fellowship
Your God Or Mine
September 1971
By:
R. B.
| Venice, California
Resentment ran riot when others differed with his concept of a Higher Power
The High-bottom Drunk
June 1971
By:
W. G.
| Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Earth people usually equate 'alcoholic' with the skid-row bum, but we know there are many different types. Getting down to basics, Bill W. often opened a meeting with the simple greeting "Hi, drunks!
Too Humble to Be Grateful
December 1970
By:
E. R.
| Van Nuys, California
I was afraid to let other people see what I was really like inside. . .
Too Humble to Be Grateful
December 1970
By:
E. R.
| Van Nuys, Calif.
I was afraid to let other people see what I was really like inside. . .
A Tiger Is Tamed
February 1970
By:
D. R.
| Rock Springs, Wyoming
It was a long trail for this hard-driving pilot-roustabout
Lightening Rod for Controversy?
A lack of group conscience meetings in her homegroup led her to the Twelve Concepts
It Took a Movie to Do It
December 1967
By:
V. C.
| Tucson, Arizona
How "Days of Wine and Roses" brought an end to his days of border-town Rum Runs
An AA Hand Was There
August 1967
By:
A. G.
| Carmel, California
On a cliff overlooking the Pacific, a broken man asked for help . . .
Good Reasons
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Greg A.
| Carlsbad, Calif.
It took an especially awful Fourth of July to make him realize he really was “that bad”
Take the steps
May 2018
By:
Doc
| Blue Springs, Missouri
An old-timer, once known as Shaky Jake, walks us through the program that changed his life
Doing The Next Right Thing
September 2016
As she fights her way through years of incredible adversity, a woman discovers the healing messages to be found in familiar slogans
The Hole Within
September 2016
No matter how much he drank, the empty space inside of him could never be filled, until found the Higher Power he had always avoided
From Rags to Riches
January 2015
By:
Norma A.
| Austin, Texas
AA taught me how to live, how to love, and how to let go
The Gift of Sharing
December 2014
By:
Rick T.
| Falcon Heights, Minnesota
The words he spoke to his AA group that December opened their hearts forever
The Wizard of Booze
November 2014
By:
Jeff W.
| Maplewood, New Jersey
Lights, camera, action: A good laugh is the kind of service this alcoholic can sing about
Down and Out in Palm Springs
July 2014
By:
Gerard K.
| Palm Springs, California
He ran as far away from his feelings as he could, until they caught up with him the Calfornia desert
You and Me and the DTs
June 2011
By:
Lee B.
| Guelph, Ontario
Twenty years after seeing her mom die of the DTs, this woman got sober after experiencing her own alcoholic seizures and DTs
Standing on the edge
January 2011
By:
Tanya C.
| Bedminster, New Jersey
A suicidal leap was her first step toward recovery
NO ACCIDENT
January 2010
By:
MIKE T.
| Prince George, British Columbia
A teenager calls AA for help and is twelfth-stepped by his friend's father
Visiting Rikers
July 2009
By:
DAVID S.
| New York, N.Y.
A prison commitment yields great rewards for one AA