The Pleasures of Reading
July 1944
Dear Grapevine
March 2012
Senior Seeks Serenity
February 2005
By:
Al J.
| Albuquerque, New Mexico
The plus-side of getting sober after sixty
Some Writers I Have Known
May 1963
By:
Upton Sinclair
How a top writer of his day views John Barleycorn's merciless plunder of literary talent
Lost & Found
March 2026
| AA & the Family
By:
Paul M.
| Oceanport, New Jersey
How would he ever repay the kindness he received on that dark, cold, drunken night? Years later in AA, he found a way
83 & On the Go
September 2025
| Stories of Gratitude
By:
Chuck H.
| Laguna Woods, California
A longtimer zigzags across the country gathering small-town stories and AA adventures
Clearing the Air
October 2024
| CPC: Cooperation with the Professional Community
By:
Peter A.
| West Simsbury, Connecticut
A dad well into sobriety embraces the Tenth Step to come clean and mend his relationship with his daughter
Goodbye My Friend
February 2024
| Getting Through Tough Times
By:
Anonymous
| Pennsylvania
A member shares his love, fear and sadness as a longtime AA friend says he’s leaving the program
We Agnostics
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Scott M.
| Farmers Branch, Texas
A Grapevine reader examines AA approaches to finding a God of our understanding
It Will Never Happen To Me
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Jennifer J.
| Lone Oak, Texas
Growing up with an alcoholic parent, she thought she knew all the pitfalls
We Never Give Up
February 2021
| Sponsorship
By:
Alex M.
| Louisville, Ky.
A man from Nepal reminds him that we don’t have the power to get people sober. We just hope and keep reaching out
May This Not Be the Eulogy of Me, You, Or Anyone We Know . . .
August 1968
By:
L. H.
| North Hollywood, California
AA: Unfair to Innocent Bystanders
April 1963
By:
J. D.
| East Orange, New Jersey
I ought to know. It ruined a good grudge, set me praying, and even stopped my drinking
Tradition Four
August 1952
By:
Bill W.
The fourth of a new series of articles explaining The Twelve Traditions. . . <lb Each group should be autonomous, except in matters affecting other groups or AA as a whole.
A True Pioneer
March 2025
| Sober and Out
By:
Mily T.
| San Francisco, California
One our earliest women longtimers was a tireless champion of AA and a close friend of Bill’s. A member shares her story
Right in the Middle
January 2022
| Beginners
By:
Peggy S.
| Belleville, N.J
In Aruba for her granddaughter’s wedding, a newcomer uses every tool she has to surround herself with AA
Let it snow
December 2017
| Issue Title Here
By:
Tolly M.
| Charlottesville, Va.
Holidays were once a constant storm. But now we have each other to keep us sober, safe and warm