What We Were Like
September 1994
By:
Ab A.
| Tulsa, Oklahoma
The Birthday Plan - excerpts from a talk given by the originator of "The Oklahoma Birthday Plan" at the AA State Meeting in Great Bend, Kansas in the fall of 1955 and first published in the May 1956 Grapevine
It Works!
May 1990
By:
Leonard Blumenthal
| Edmonton, Alberta
Many AA members would not be sober without the help of nonalcoholics. In this issue, we have invited six friends of the Fellowship who work with suffering alcoholics to share their experience, strength, and hope with Grapevine readers.
Too Humble to Be Grateful
December 1970
By:
E. R.
| Van Nuys, California
I was afraid to let other people see what I was really like inside. . .
Too Humble to Be Grateful
December 1970
By:
E. R.
| Van Nuys, Calif.
I was afraid to let other people see what I was really like inside. . .
A Chaplain Looks at AA
April 1960
From the Vintage Years
July 1958
A Sampling of the First Anniversary Issue: <emphasis type="italic">July 1945</emphasis>
A Helping Hand
July 2026
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Nina M.
| Louisville, Kentucky
Members at an AA meeting in a Kentucky correctional facility discover a brand-new tool to help them get sober
A Beautiful Calm
December 1979
By:
R. P.
| Margate, Florida
The Serenity Prayer replaced his anger with
Can I Talk to You?
February 1979
By:
F. E.
| Boone, North Carolina
Twelfth Step - Who was the stranger at the door? A man bringing the best of gifts to a grateful AA
Freedom Began in Prison
February 1970
By:
R. R.
| Universal City, California
The Fourth and Fifth Steps help make beautiful music
Will the Lord's Prayer Survive in AA?
A member weighs in on whether or not the prayer should be included in meetings
Only One-sixth Left!
May 1968
By:
T. F. J. II
| Burbank, California
The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made." <emphasis type="italic">Robert Browning</emphasis>
Unitemized Bill
September 1960
By:
Bill O.
| Charleston, South Carolina
There are no dues or fees in AA because the alcoholic has already paid the price
Easy Does It & General Service Fund
October 1956
By:
The Bleeding Deacon of Deer Creek D
| Nevada City, California
but do it. . .!