Twelve Steps and the Older Member
April 1955
By:
J. E.
| Bronxville, New York
Step Five: Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
A. A.'s Country-wide News Circuit
July 1946
The Main Taproot of Our Society
January 1993
By:
Lou H.
| Greensboro, North Carolina
Step One: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable.
But a Little Word of One syllable... such a Word Is This Word God Or This Word Love
August 1968
By:
Anonymous
| Buenos Aires
An AA who started his sober life as an atheist shares notes on his continuing spiritual search
Dr. Jung, Dr. Silkworth and AA
January 1968
By:
Bill W.
Except for what Dr. Jung told Roland and what Dr. Silkworth told Lois, there might never have been any AA. Bill got the verdict: He was doomed. Unless. . .
How It Was. . .
June 1979
By:
Anonymous
| Manhattan, New York
Grapevine's 35th Anniversary - A visit with Bill's "little sister
Grapevine Daily Quote September 13, 2018
“I am learning how to cope with life, people, and situations, not as I want them to be, but as they really are.”
“Reality Can Be Uncomfortable,” Millburn, New Jersey, July 1971, Emotional Sobriety II
Quote September 13, 2016
“I am learning how to cope with life, people, and situations, not as I want them to be, but as they really are.”
Millburn, N.J., July 1971 “Reality Can Be Uncomfortable” Emotional Sobriety II
Many A.A.s Ride a Hobby Do You?
November 1948
News Circuit of A.A.s From All Parts of the World
September 1948
A Letter From My Father
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
C.B.
| Miami, Fla.
A long-ago missive from an absent parent makes all the difference
The Random Meeting
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Scott C.
| Portland, Ore.
Picking a random meeting, a man and his sponsor find a new world of sobriety
Before we are halfway through
September 2019
| Young & Sober
By:
Sam Marie E.
| Atlanta, Georgia
A member takes us on a long, wonderful journey as she makes her Ninth Step amends and clears a path to freedom
Dear Grapevine
September 2018
Keeping my place
August 2017
By:
Michael C.
| Mason, Michigan
Thanks to his Big Book, a father in Michigan built a history in sobriety—sometimes with crayons
A Student of Alcoholics Anonymous
August 2017
By:
Kate W.
| Roswell, Ga.
After she graduated from college, she became a student learning a new way of life—one without alcohol
Dry Drunk
June 2017
By:
Mark R.
| Barrie, Ontario
He was told when he came into AA that if he didn’t drink and went to meetings, his life would get better. It didn’t happen that way.
Looking for Peace
April 2016
For years and years he searched for the one thing he finally found in AA
Love in the Valley
April 2013
By:
Surely K.
| Sandy Valley, Nevada
In a small town, a newcomer opens her home to help save lives—and a little gas