Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to list everything in a directory, including dotfiles (example .file1) except for the . and .. that are in every folder.
I'm guessing it's some sort of regular expression I need.
So far, I have come up with
ls -a | grep [^.]
That lists the .file1 file only (though I don't see why it should, as it indicate listed lines which start with . and the listings . and .. qualify for this)
However, when I create a file called ... and try this, it doesn't work.

ls -A

Cheers,
ZB

That simple! Cheers!