Grapevine

BY: C. B. | SANTA MARIA, CALIFORNIA I HAVE BEEN a member of Alcoholics Anonymous for several years, and I am most grateful. The rewards and benefits I have received have all been made possible through accepting and following certain conditions set forth in the program of AA. Which of these conditions is of the … Read more

BY: W. H. | WEST LEBANON, NEW YORK AS A RECOVERING member of Alcoholics Anonymous and an agnostic, I would like to present a few thoughts on our Fellowship from an agnostic viewpoint. One thing that makes my own experience unusual is that I came into the program eighteen years ago professing a conventional belief … Read more

BY: ED L. | COOS BAY, OREGON In a few days I will celebrate my first birthday in Alcoholics Anonymous. I look forward to it as the most special day of my forty-one years. As I look back on my year of sobriety I feel a great deal of gratitude for the changes that have … Read more

BY: R. C. | ROGERS, NEBRASKA THE FIRST lesson in honesty I remember was when I was about eight years old. Dad and I were in a grocery store that had open nut storage. Dad cracked and tasted some peanuts and gave me some to do the same. “Good, aren’t they?” he said. “We’ll have … Read more

BY: DON MCF. | BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA I FIND that being “rigorously honest” is not always easy. The paths through the jungle of our money society, in which I earn my daily bread, are set with a lot of materialistic traps that make it quite difficult. Even complete honesty with myself is not always possible. … Read more