The View from Here: - Each Month a Group of Past Delegates to the General Service Conference Will Talk About the Traditions
April 1996
By:
Raul M.
| San Antonio, Texas
The Right to Be Wrong
Just for Today
May 1955
The Arena
October 1951
By:
M.A.J.
| Lenox Hill, New York
wherein the Grapevine readers offer suggestions to old-timers
Mail Call for All A.A.s at Home Or Abroad
February 1948
By:
J.A.D.
| Manhattan, New York
Why All the Congratulations?
Mail Call for All A.A.s at Home Or Abroad
August 1947
By:
Gay M. B.
| Long Beach, California
Transition Inevitable
Mail Call for All A.A.s at Home Or Abroad
January 1946
By:
Dick F. M., Sgt., USMCR
A Marine Gives Thanks
The Language of the Heart
November 1972
By:
Bill W.
From the Grapevine book AA Today, published on the occasion of AA's twenty-fifth anniversary
My First St. Patrick's Day
March 2024
| Spanish-Speaking AA Members
By:
Steve C. FORMER STATEN IRELANDER
| Deposit, New York
A Staten Island newcomer nervously heads to the big parade for an adventure he won’t soon forget
Help Wanted
January 2021
| Oldtimers!
By:
David B.
| New York, N.Y.
I had been fired again. I was hitting bottom, though I didn’t know that at the time. I picked up the pay phone in the coffee shop. That was my First Step.
Changing Course
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
By:
Eve K.
| Lexington, Ky.
I was nourished by these women. What resonated loudly was hearing that “getting sober is like trying to turn the Titanic around.” The woman’s words shook me to my core.