Quote January 15, 2013
“I am grateful that the people in AA showed me how to live sober. However, I have learned many things from other sources. I learned about quiet from the breeze floating through the grass on a warm summer day. I have learned unconditional love from my animals. I have learned how to have wonder of the world from my children. I have learned that all things have tremendous power.”
Albuquerque, N.M., April 1984 From: “Journey of the Spirit” Spiritual Awakenings
Dear Grapevine
December 2025
| Sober Holidays & Remote Communities
Tale of 3 Sponsors
June 2025
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Joycee C.
| Englewood, Florida
She put some through hell, but she listened and learned about life, love and helping others
Dear Grapevine
April 2025
| Making Amends
Making it Happen
March 2025
| Sober and Out
By:
Karl M.
| Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
A member shares how he and his AA friends got an LGBTQ+ meeting started in their small Pennsylvania town
Faith & Flour
November 2022
| Fun in Sobriety
By:
Bernice S.
| Lincoln, Neb.
With one cup of AA and a pound of love, a sober mom bakes some delicious joy
Dear Grapevine
September 2022
| Young & Sober
Service Is My Cornerstone
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Mary G.
| Huntington, Calif.
At the heart of her sobriety—women being of service to other women
51 years of peeling the onion
June 2022
| Stories by Longtimers!
By:
Dick J.
| Riverside, Calif.
One day in 1971 he listened to that still small voice and made a decision. What an adventure it’s been
Eyes wide open
February 2022
| Getting Through Tough Times
By:
Leslie P.
| Angleton, Texas
She was sober now, so why was life so tough? Where was her amazing meadow full of butterflies?
The Only Requirement
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Robert M.
At his first meeting, Tradition Three spoke his name loud and clear
The Wisdom To Know The Difference
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Sharon T.
| Ft Lauderdale, Fla.
The Serenity Prayer guides her gently through her mother’s passing
Born An Alcoholic
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Lewis F.
| Loveland, Colo.
From the cradle and almost to the grave, one alcoholic tells his story
Dear Grapevine
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
Jumpstart
May 2020
| Getting Into General Service
By:
Steve S.
| Manhasset, N.Y.
She came right up to me. “How many years do you have sober?” she asked. “Almost 17,” I replied. Without missing a beat, she said, “Well, how would you like to be our Intergroup Rep?”
A Psychiatrist's Appreciation of Alcoholics Anonymous
November 1998
By:
Adele E. Streeseman, M.D.
The AA program enables the withdrawn alcoholic to trust the mental therapist, thus hastening a return to sobriety--and sanity.
A Firm Foundation
June 1993
By:
Ed K.
| Victoria, British Columbia
One of the five AAs who were present at Newfoundland's first meeting, at the Glynmill Inn in Cornerbrook, October 1949, shares memories of early AA in that province.
Gateway to Sanity
February 1989
By:
Jan P.
| Spokane, Washington
Step Two - Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
The Eleventh Step - It's One of the Twelve
November 1984
By:
P. M.
When worked in combination with other Steps, Step Eleven can teach us to live by God's will - From the December 1973 Grapevine
The Great Equalizer
May 1980
By:
J. R., MD
| San Diego, California
Loners, leaders, priests, potentates, and just plain folk--alcoholism is
Personal Responsibility
March 1977
By:
B. L.
| Manhattan, New York
Maybe we don't like too much organization, but somebody has to get things done
A Tradition Born of Our Anonymity
November 1975
By:
Bill W.
AA's Traditions, Bill wrote, were "hammered out on the anvil of experience." Here, from an early Grapevine, Bill shares some of the experience that led to the adoption of our two anonymity Traditions - From the January 1946 Grapevine
Simple Truths in an Intellectual Age
June 1975
By:
H. M.
| Newhall, California
Basic AA can work on faith alone but there are those who analyze themselves into trouble