Practicing AA Principles
June 1974
Lending An Ear
December 2016
The reason he’s got 30 years of sobriety is became he listens as if his life depends on it. And it does
Ham on Wry
March 1989
The Hard-drinker Drunk
June 1971
By:
O. F. Y.
| Castroville, California
He rarely was clinically drunk but he had to come to AA for help
Dear Grapevine
February 2012
Mike the Plumber and Airplane Tim?
November 2014
By:
Jim T.
| Longmont, Colorado
Should AAs be less anonymous when we introduce ourselves to each other?
Worrywart in the Mountains
January 2014
By:
Gloria K.
| Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Sometimes when we question things, we get very specific answers
Laughter 101
April 2021
| Fun in Sobriety
By:
Glenn P.
| Florissant, Mo.
When a group of nurses visits our open meeting on a field trip, I want them to know about AA group autonomy and that not all meetings are like ours.
Tending my Garden
January 2024
| Emotional Sobriety
By:
C.W.
| Tucson, Arizona
Each day she plants a flower or a cactus she’s reminded that, just as in life, she’s not in charge
Home again
March 2018
By:
Ames S.
| New York, New York
Each year he takes flight, sometimes gracefully, and returns to the room where it all began
Two Gifts
March 2017
The first sound he heard, shuffling down the hall of the detox in pajamas and paper slippers, was laughter. But where could it be coming from?
Letter from Finland
November 2013
After a childhood corroded by alcohol, she turned to it as an adult to dull the misery
Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age
December 1957
By:
Bill W.
More historic photographs from - An informal account by co-founder
Home group heartbreaker
February 2011
By:
Anonymous
Sometimes following group conscience is the hardest thing in the world