Our readers write in and tell us how they go to bed each night.
“I used to be a bit of a cocky jerk and judgmental asshole, but there’s nothing like a twenty-year heroin habit to knock some of the snot nose out of you.”
A new prompt for this month. Buddhism Megablast! Pema/Kornfield. More Ram Dass.
Maggie Smith is this month’s TSB Poet Laureate.
A bookseller recommends a novel about suicide.
On personal growth. Fav poem about the current apocalypse. Tolstoy in a pinch. Depresh Mode.
Part Two of our January 2026 (!) check-ins.
New year, new check-ins.
TSB Check-Ins
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It's resolution, baby. Jenny Odell. Alan Watts. Jim Harrison . And David Duchovny.