“After ‘mono no aware’ came into my life, I obsessed about all the little things that disappeared each day without me noticing, which seemed like everything.”
Time for October check-ins.
October Check-Ins are due. Please send yours in.
Ben Gaffaney finds balance, nausea
More stories from TSB readers about their relationships with food
Ben Gaffaney accidentally time travels
Our readers tell us about calling 9-8-8.
"I feared everyone in the audience would smell the Diet Coke and lameness on me. I started sweating before the opening act even went on."
TSB Readers tell us about their relationships with food
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Eight years of The Small Bow. Plus: ADDERALL! New pod with Yassir Lester on the Family Disease. New tunes, Pema on PAIN, the best poem for whatever you're moving through.
How The Small Bow got its name.
“He was that kind of person — so creative, smart, and expressive that he made you want to be that way too.”
“I’m 96 years young, with 48 years of sobriety.”
More talk on Food Addiction. Buddhism stuff. Tony Hoagland on dying. New pod w Carey O'Donnell on 10-years of sobriety and Perez Hilton. Tunes and gratitude. PLUS - special TSB POD PREVIEWS.
An essay and prompt about Food Issues
An essay about happiness for all God's Adult Children.
Ben Gaffaney knows we’re all just getting by
More September Check-Ins, plus it’s recovery month.
Back to September, back to school, back to check-ins.
We need your September Check-Ins! A new book about how not to let your brain eat you alive. A return to Jenny Liou. New pod on working out my cult with Tommy Rosen. New song for the neglected TSB playlist.
Our roundup of TSB’s most popular August posts and podcasts.
An annual 8th Step tradition. Writing prompts serving as spiritual balms via Lydia Davis. Montaigne and Salvador Dali. "Failure" by Philip Schultz. Erin Lee Carr. New pod about Emotional Sobriety and the Internet with Kathryn Jezer-Morton.
What happens when you call the suicide hotline?
