About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research, and Treatment
May 1982
By:
Tom McLaughlin
Without Anger
About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research and Treatment
May 1981
By:
Chandralekha Sharma
Don't Make Waves
Dear Grapevine
August 2025
| Atheist & Agnostic Members
It takes a village
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
By:
“Definitely Steve”
| Nashville, Tenn.
A longtime member in Tennessee gleefully remembers the wonderful oldtimers who gave him his start
63 Wonderful Years
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
By:
Joan S.
| San Diego, Calif.
Hopping in and out of virtual meetings all over the world, a mother of four who got sober in 1957 has really seen it all
The Committee
July 2020
| AA Around The World
By:
Andy A.
| St. Peters, Mo.,
Voices # 1,2,3 and 4 have lots to say about Andy’s day off. Oh wait, #5 does too
No Defense
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
MaryAnn B.
| Tacoma, Wash.
Getting sober later in life, with the help of Grapevine and a spiritual awakening
A True Partnership?
October 2019
| Is AA Accessible to all who need it?
By:
Anonymous
| Cocoa Beach, FL.
Finding out that getting sober can mean finally forming real relationships
The best part of my week
December 2018
| Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities
By:
Tom C.
| El Paso, Texas
He’s seen men come and go. Some make it and many not, but one thing’s for sure: He keeps coming
Better Late Than Never?
January 2017
It isn’t your age that counts when you come into the program, it’s your willingness, as one older newcomer discovers
Mail Call for All A.A.s at Home Or Abroad
October 1946
By:
J.T.B.
| Detroit, Michigan
We're Not Original
New Man Out
December 2019
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By:
Charles D.
| Pacheco, Calif.
Three days sober and he didn’t know a soul. Until he raised his hand
Driving a Car Isn't a Contact Sport--and Other Things I Discovered in Sobriety
May 1985
By:
M. H.
| Everett, Washington
AA must change
March 1974
By:
E. S.
| Brooklyn, New York
The growth of agencies working in the field of alcoholism presents new challenges to AAs. Here are three articles discussing the problems and the opportunities we face
The Glass Palace
July 2017
By:
Sharat S.
| India
God has his own way of distributing gifts to those who ask for them—this alcoholic did not know he was even in the queue until his Higher Power intervened
Sharing Her Gifts
June 2008
By:
Anonymous
| St. Louis, Missouri
Once "miserable beyond description," an AA lives life on life's terms
Tradition One: You Call This Unity?
January 2006
By:
Dorothy H.
| Piscataway, New Jersey
from the January 1992 Grapevine
Happy Birthday to Me
January 1961
By:
H.W.
| Pleasantville, New York
An AA mother appraises the results of her six years of sobriety on her son--and finds it good
Heard at Open Meetings
April 1962