Simple rules
February 2019
| Stories by Our Longtime Members
She came to believe in AA. Now, at 88, she passes it on and keeps it uncomplicated
Many powers greater than me
February 2019
| Stories by Our Longtime Members
Although she’s unsure, she just keeps praying. Something seems to be working
Finding my lane
February 2019
| Stories by Our Longtime Members
How learning to ask for help on a sober bowling team helped him find a Higher Power
Deadly Hobby for a Retiree
January 1975
Free at last from people-pleasing, this veteran movie publicist was all set to please himself
Need a Sponsor? Who, Me?
January 1975
Is this element of the AA program being neglected today? In response to wide concern, the Grapevine offers here the thinking of three writers on the subject
Be a Sponsor? Who, Me?
January 1975
If you started in AA as an "orphan," you may shy away from "parenthood
The Mountains Shall Bring Peace. . ."--Psalms 72:3
February 1961
Booze and song-plugging went hand in hand for this veteran tunesmith until the merry-go-round broke down
No Place to Go But Up
February 1961
The down-and-outer latched onto the Twelve Steps like a drowning man fighting for air--and took his sponsor right up the ladder with him
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