Author Archives: wpadmin

  October 30, 2025 “In AA, we slowly learn to stop stewing in our own juice and to start loving other people.” Tucson, Arizona, August 1971, “Eleventh Step,” The Best… Read More »

  October 29, 2025 “How life looks to me depends on how I look at it. While this sounds simple, just like everything else in Alcoholics Anonymous, it requires continual… Read More »

  October 28, 2025 “Thelma told me that, no matter how much I feared making bad decisions, I could not learn how to make good decisions except by making decisions.… Read More »

  October 27, 2025 “We now know that we shall always practice these principles: first because we must, then because we ought to, and finally because the majority of us… Read More »

  October 26, 2025 “I don’t foresee outgrowing my need for help.” Harrisonburg, Virginia, May 1991, “Lonely at the Top,” Emotional Sobriety   The AA Grapevine’s new commemorative offerings: the… Read More »

  October 25, 2025 “In AA we talk a great deal about each other. Provided our motives are thoroughly good, this is not in the least wrong. But damaging gossip… Read More »

  October 24, 2025 “I write my goals and priorities in pencil, so I can erase them. This is not so I can sell myself short, but so I can… Read More »

  October 23, 2025 “Well-remembered is the comfort I used to take from an exaggerated belief in my own honesty … I was so absurdly proud of my business standards… Read More »

  October 22, 2025 “Through the years, I have read thousands of books and pamphlets, but the Big Book is still the superstar. The love flowing from its pages encourages… Read More »

  October 21, 2025 “One old-timer explained it this way to me: ‘Don’t let your mind rattle on at meetings. Then all you’ll hear from someone else is something that… Read More »