A Very Satisfactory Life
June 1989
By:
Felicia M.
| New Canaan, Connecticut
The story of a long-time Grapevine contributor who is still going strong!
Simple Truths in an Intellectual Age
June 1975
By:
H. M.
| Newhall, California
Basic AA can work on faith alone but there are those who analyze themselves into trouble
A Lush in the Halls of Ivy
November 1974
By:
G. N. G., B.S., M.A., Ph.D.
Cap and gown were turning into cap and bells until this professor turned himself in to AA
People
March 1971
. . . many streams of influence and many people, some of them nonalcoholics, had helped, by the Grace of God, to achieve AA's purpose." Bill in <emphasis type="italic">AA Comes of Age</emphasis>
A Doctor Says, "Don't Kid Yourself About Cures
February 1966
By:
D. G. M., M.D.
| Montreal, Quebec
A Canadian alcoholic who is also an M.D. reflects on alcoholism and his own experience with compulsion
The Twelve Steps Revisited / Step 10
October 1962
By:
J. E.
| Guilford, Connecticut
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Dangers in Linking AA to Other Projects
October 1957
By:
Bill W.
Reprinted from The Grapevine, October 1944
Many Tongues - The Same Language
November 1951
The Twelve Steps Lead to the Same Place for Alcoholics Everywhere--as AA Members in 38 Lands Can Testify
A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit
June 1946
Grapevine Daily Quote October 6
“The five H's combine into a powerful formula for success. Starting with Hope, passing through Honesty into a gracious Humility, we become Human again, taking our rightful places in society and, by living a well rounded life, develop an integrated personality free of the stresses that urge us to drink. Finally, through Helpfulness we express gratitude and pass on to others some of the blessings we have enjoyed these recent weeks, months, years. Truly a Magic Formula for Continued Sobriety....”