From the Cave of the Fallen Angels
March 1975
By:
E. S.
| Manhattan, New York
The words and the phrases may vary from time to time, but the basic message of the AA experience goes on unchanged
People and Principles
October 1971
By:
M. D. B.
| Jackson, Michigan
Personalities change and people are often wrong, but principles remain constant
The High-bottom Drunk
June 1971
By:
W. G.
| Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Earth people usually equate 'alcoholic' with the skid-row bum, but we know there are many different types. Getting down to basics, Bill W. often opened a meeting with the simple greeting "Hi, drunks!
The Uses and Abuses of Clichs
April 1971
By:
J. S.
| Peterborough, New Hampshire
Don't analyze--utilize. But try to understand what they truly mean
1st Step
January 1970
By:
B. L.
| Manhattan, New York
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol. . .that our lives had become unmanageable.
It Took a Movie to Do It
December 1967
By:
V. C.
| Tucson, Arizona
How "Days of Wine and Roses" brought an end to his days of border-town Rum Runs
Sobriety-by-mail
June 1967
By:
Murray M.
In a New Zealand prison: Four walls enclose him day and night, but they don't keep out the AA message
Caught in Hateland
December 1966
By:
R. A. S.
| La Verne, California
An AA once trapped by resentments offers a guide to the way out
Glossary of Golfing Terms
September 1965
By:
J. F. G. Jr.
| Shaker Heights, Ohio
Did drinking affect your golf? Or vice versa?
Senile Sobriety
January 1965
By:
Anonymous
| Charlotte, Michigan
If you've been around a while and think you're having dull times, read this
Christmas Illumination
December 1964
By:
J. K. B.
| Studio City
There was no tree to trim. Was the bottle the answer or could AA suggest another approach?
That Loud-mouth !*"#!!*!
October 1963
By:
B. E. T.
| Siesta Key, Florida
I had just learned to control my resentments, when
Down by the river
February 2015
By:
Anonymous
The biggest lesson he learned on that boat was not the one he expected.
On the Mountaintop
December 2014
By:
Jerry F.
| Cerritos, California
Getting sober in AA relieved him of his alcoholism and the shackles he made for himself
Getting to the Root
August 2014
By:
Katie G.
| Burnsville, Minnesota
Not smart enough, not thin enough, not good enough. The Steps helped her dig up the truth
Those Cornhusker Blues
April 2014
By:
Mel B.
| Toledo, Ohio
Sitting in a hotel room in downtown Lincoln, he found himself ruminating on some experiences from decades before
Dear Grapevine
January 2013
The End of a Sad Soap Opera
February 2012
By:
LaGene W.
| New York, New York
With her life in shambles and knowing nothing of AA, she remembered a sober character on a tv show and picked up the phone
Love on the Rocks
August 2011
By:
Jay K.
| South Carolina
An AA relationship is put to the ultimate test when a wife's affair with his sponsee is revealed
Alcohol, The Greatest Disability of All
June 2011
By:
Russ K.
| Nampa, Idaho
He realized that living life as an alcoholic was a lot worse than living with the disability of having only one arm
An Unencumbered Man
June 2011
By:
David S.
| New York, New York
AA had ruined his drinking; now it ruined his isolation
Pancake king
October 2010
By:
NORM H.
| Cary, N.C.
He guarded his griddle like it was made of gold . . . then his ego got the better of him
Sidelined by remorse
September 2010
By:
J.M.
| Kansas City, Mo.
After his brother's suicide, he blames himself and drops out of AA
The Measure of Success
September 2008
By:
Gretchen P.
| Toledo, Ohio
It's not what you accomplish, but what you overcome
Tradition One: You Call This Unity?
January 2006
By:
Dorothy H.
| Piscataway, New Jersey
from the January 1992 Grapevine
Self-reliance: a Skeptic's Story
October 2005
By:
C.M.
| Los Altos, California
An alcoholic tries to "AA her way" through depression