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What It’s Like to Be Addicted to...Weed?
Is that even possible?
Sep 12
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The Small Bow
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How Close Have You Come to Dying?
And how did it change your life?
Sep 9
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Garrett Kamps
31
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How to Do a Second Act
Too great a wound, too small a bow. It's Recovery Month and TSB's birthday.
Sep 7
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The Small Bow
30
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Heroin Is More Powerful Than the Love We Share
Another first-person essay on what it’s like to love an addict.
Sep 5
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The Small Bow
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Doing Our Level Best to Stay Level
September check-ins are here.
Sep 2
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The Small Bow
22
1
August 2025
Our Sick Thinking
Nobody will write a better check-in this month than Elizabeth Gilbert, but you should try. Also, in this issue: The Tao Te Ching. A darn good poem. And…
Aug 31
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The Small Bow
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Flashes of the Aching Core Beneath
August stories you may have missed, and a call for September check-ins!
Aug 29
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The Small Bow
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More on What It’s Like to Love an Addict
“When I consider what it must be like for him to feel that concern for other humans each day, I don’t have to wonder why it all became too much.”
Aug 26
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The Small Bow
29
How to Be Avoidant
The things we don't confront begin to control us. Inspiring quotes for people with dark existential yearning. Pema on meditation and other shit. Three…
Aug 24
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The Small Bow
30
1
How to Break Up With Your Therapist
"Can't I ghost her? Everyone I know who switches their therapist stops seeing them and moves on."
Aug 23
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The Small Bow
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How to Survive
Introducing TSB’s Poet Laureate series.
Aug 22
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The Small Bow
40
2
Hit by a Truck
“I felt on-edge most of the time, but especially in cars. I was waiting for the next loud noise to rearrange everything.”
Aug 21
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The Small Bow
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