Keeping it real
July 2018
By:
Jamie M.
| Butler, Pennsylvania
What Renee and Becky taught her traveled into her heart. Now she turns around and gives it back
Creativity in Sobriety
June 2015
He thought that alcohol was enhancing his work, in fact it was blocking it
A Reciprocal Dynamic
April 2015
By:
Anonymous
| Los Angeles, California
When we practice Tradition Four while remembering Step Three, everybody wins
"I Like the Effect"
November 2014
An old timer looks back on life before and after she came to AA as a young woman
Web Exclusive: AA Friends
December 2011
By:
Anonymous
| Long Beach, New York
A man reflects on the death of a close friend in AA
JUST SAY YES
January 2009
By:
James H.
| Corpus Christi, Texas
Taking the Friday night commitment kept this newcomer out of the bars
I'm in Prison--but I Feel Free
August 1971
By:
C. W. M.
| Michigan City, Indiana
He's learning to face the truth and be honest with himself
Are We Grooming a Show-off Elite at AA Conventions?
August 1968
By:
Anonymous
| Charlotte, North Carolina
The emergence of prominent, special, red-hot speakers is, according to this member, a contradiction of our Twelfth Tradition
From the Grass Roots
January 1956
By:
D. H. P.
| St. Lampert, Quebec
SOME ANSWERS TO "M.M.'s" GRIPE ABOUT BAR-BY-BAR AA TALKS
News Circuit of A.A.s From All Parts of the World
September 1948
A Measure of Growth
December 1975
By:
Sam M.
| Safford, Arizona
Are we using profanity to fill a vacuum between immaturity and growing up?
Saved by Prison
Though he had been to meetings before, it was only after being arrested that he found sobriety
Anesthetics Anonymous
April 1953
By:
G. B.
| Chicago, Illinois
Two alcoholics can help each other, except. . .!
First Things First!
December 1949
The A. A. Grapevine wants to publish a series of short pieces explaining how the famous AA slogans and the 24-hour plan have helped so many AAs in so many places. Below are the first entries. Give us your interpretation, won't you?
Letters Ask for Bottle of "Cure
May 1948