What Makes AA Work?. . .Or Shouldn't I Ask?
November 1997
By:
Ben E.
| Old Greenwich, Connecticut
(From the December 1956 Grapevine)
Do We Need Each Other?
January 1994
By:
B. L.
| Manhattan, New York
Tradition One - Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity.
What Makes AA Work?
November 1990
By:
Ben E.
| Old Greenwich, Connecticut
From the December 1956 Grapevine
Do We Need Each Other?
July 1976
By:
B. L.
| Manhattan, New York
The first words this suffering drunk heard in AA came back to him in AA's First Tradition
Entertaining Is Part of My Work
October 1975
By:
W. W. G.
| Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Or. . . How to succeed in business without really drinking
Sparkling Wine in a Crystal Glass
January 1972
By:
V. W.
| San Pablo, California
It started with - But the glow didn't last and the glamour soon wore off
Just like dad
March 2022
| Emotional Sobriety
By:
Jake G.
| Leander, Texas
The alcoholic “monster” he tried so hard not to become was the person he turned to for help
Early Shaky Days
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
P.J. L.
| Epping, New South Wales
Achieving sobriety with the help of long-remembered words of other alcoholics, he discovered he was no longer “terminally unique”
Loose nut
January 2017
By:
Chris K.
| Grain Valley, Missouri
Once a danger at the wheel, she reduced her speed and joined the highway to emotional sobriety
Bang Bam Boom!
June 2013
By:
Jeanne E.
| Blaine, Minnesota
After 68 years of trips and falls, she finally tumbled into AA
Alcoholism--a Medical Bombshell
February 1963
By:
Donald W. Brodie, M. D.
Withdrawal symptoms of alcohol are more severe than withdrawal symptoms of morphine.
My First AA Experience
January 2017
She attended her first meeting drunk and the hand of AA did not reach out to her. Sober ten years later, she remembers with resentment—and forgivness.
Power of Example
November 2025
| Early days of AA
By:
Rob G.
| Marmora, New Jersey
Newly sober, he was determined to bring a list of others in with him.
Luckily, he checked with some oldtimers
Luckily, he checked with some oldtimers
A Promise Come True
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Becky B.
| Allen, Texas
When emotional sobriety kicks in, true serenity follows