Author Archives: wpadmin

  May 30, 2025 “This issue of the Grapevine marks the anniversary of its founding exactly fifteen [now seventy] years ago.  The memory of some of those first editorial meetings… Read More »

  May 29, 2025 “Groups change, just like people do, and we AAs fight change. Although we can never go back to the way it once was, we will survive… Read More »

  May 28, 2025 “I have learned to keep quiet when I disagree and to give others freedom to express opinions widely different from my own — without giving in… Read More »

  May 27, 2025 “I am thankful to God for all that I have, and for all that I don’t have.”  “With the Aid of AA, My Life Took… Read More »

  May 26, 2025 “The most beautiful gifts of my life come to me in packages I do not recognize at first glance. In fact, I often don’t see them… Read More »

  May 25, 2025 “I have learned in the program not to listen to the voice of my ego when it starts whispering things.” “Uprooted,” Clayton, California, May 2012, AA… Read More »

  May 24, 2025 “AA is not a separate country, cut off from the mainland of the real world; it is the schoolroom I missed somewhere along the line …… Read More »

  May 23, 2025 “We are not a sociological entity, although sociologists find us fascinating. We are not a therapy group, although remarkable healing takes place among us. And we… Read More »

  May 22, 2025 “While wealth and authority lie at the foundation of many a noble institution, we of AA now apprehend, and thoroughly well, that these things are not… Read More »

  May 21, 2025 “The word ‘alcoholic’ does not turn me off anymore; in fact, it is music to my ears when it applies to me.”  “One of Those… Read More »