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Let Quantity Help Quality

November 1955
By: Anon. | New York City, New York
Continuing the discussion of length of sobriety, another member suggests in a letter to a friend

Working Step Eleven

February 1955
By: The Golden Gater | San Francisco, California

What Price Sobriety?

January 1954
By: H. T. | Dallas, Texas

He's Retired!

October 1953
By: H. S. | Lake Ronkonkoma, New York
Who, Joe Blow?

Chicago Secretary Dies Suddenly

February 1948
By: E.B. | Chicago

Quote March 15, 2016

“It is very possible that I might not be the most suitable person to sponsor a particular new member. I might be unsuited by my personality, by my education (or lack of education) or by my profession. For the same reasons I might be just the one to sponsor someone else.”

Lawton, Okla., February 1955 From: “Sponsorship” AA Grapevine
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Quote March 15, 2013

“It is very possible that I might not be the most suitable person to sponsor a particular new member. I might be unsuited by my personality, by my education (or lack of education) or by my profession. For the same reasons I might be just the one to sponsor someone else.”

Lawton, Okla., February 1955 From: “Sponsorship” AA Grapevine
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Grapevine Daily Quote August 28, 2019

“When I've examined a situation all ways from Sunday, and the only thing I can see are bad consequences, then I can say, ‘God, I don't have the least idea what to do.’ That seems to be the magic phrase for me. Then something happens, and it is usually an action I hadn't thought of doing, and the result is good for all.”

“Distilled Spirits,” Irasburg, Vermont, December 1997, AA Grapevine
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Quote August 28, 2014

“When I've examined a situation all ways from Sunday, and the only thing I can see are bad consequences, then I can say, ‘God, I don't have the least idea what to do.’ That seems to be the magic phrase for me. Then something happens, and it is usually an action I hadn't thought of doing, and the result is good for all.”

Irasburg, Vermont, December 1997 “Distilled Spirits,” AA Grapevine

Grapevine Daily Quote August 28, 2017

“When I've examined a situation all ways from Sunday, and the only thing I can see are bad consequences, then I can say, ‘God, I don't have the least idea what to do.’ That seems to be the magic phrase for me. Then something happens, and it is usually an action I hadn't thought of doing, and the result is good for all.”

Irasburg, Vt., December 1997“Distilled Spirits,” AA Grapevine
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All I had to do was Surrender

February 2024 | Getting Through Tough Times
By: Lisa B. | San Antonio, Texas
After years of booze, breakups and drama, she finally decided something had to change

Fear no more

July 2023 | Annual Prison Issue
By: Tom S. | Arlington Heights, Illinois
Asking his Higher Power to remove the thing that ruled his life for years took some surprising humbling action

A Sense of Belonging

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Sasha E. | Collierville, Tenn.
She had it all—the kids, the home, the husband—but she couldn’t stop drinking

A tough amend

September 2021 | Young & Sober!
By: Bob K. | Benicia, Calif.
How would he ever make amends to the man he had knifed in the back? In AA, we find a way

Drinking Was Fun Until It Wasn’t

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Meghan C. | Verona, Va.
As a child, she was fascinated by the allure of liquor stores. As an adult, they became places of despair

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New Guy in Town

May 2024 | How the Steps Changed My Life
By: Todd K. | Huntley, Illinois
Moving can make it super tricky to connect to a new AA routine.
So glad he took the suggestion to do a 90 in 90!

Lucky in Peru

August 2023 | AA in the Military
By: Lucky M. (Suerte M.) | Brooklyn, New York
A trans AA member celebrates her two year anniversary in a beautiful place where the language of the heart is spoken

Helping Our Own

May 2023 | Home Group
By: Diane K. | Washington, D.C.
No AA meetings, no Big Book, no literature...what was she to do? Home group to the rescue!

Manhunt

October 2022 | Relapse
By: Conny C. | Los Angeles, Calif.
A longtime member recalls her rocky start, shopping her way sober while looking for “love”

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

Giving It Away

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Sheila F. | Bloomington, Minn.
She was 22 years old, too tired to live, too scared to die. But then she found AA

Keep Coming Back

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Kent S. | Salt Lake City, Utah
Every time he relapsed, AA picked him up again—and told him to keep on coming

It All Began at a Meeting

April 2019 | Relapse
By: Gina | Florida
No matter where she goes in her far-flung travels, AA—that is, you—is always with her

Released

November 2018
By: Lauren B. | Richmond, Virginia
Sharing her story with these men helped set her free from a prison of her own

It’s my turn now

August 2018
By: Thomas S | Arlington Heights, Illinois
It was time to give away what Kenny had done for him. But was he ready?

Overhaul?

December 2009
By: JOE C. | Toronto, Ontario
Can our literature be us cutting edge today as it was seven decades ago?

Between A Bartender And A Bad-tempered Boss

December 2006
By: Angela W.
Alone in a bar on her first AA anniversary

A World Apart

November 2006
By: Anonymous | New York, New York
Are we pushing people away from AA?

That Monumental Thirst

May 2004
By: Judith N. | Marysville, Washington
She was afraid she would crave a drink for the rest of her life

Spiritual Kindergarten

April 2002
By: Jim K. | New York, New York

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