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
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