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.
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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.
Our readers tell us about calling 9-8-8.
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?
“I have always hated lying, but I lied easily and often if it meant protecting my drinking. I don’t think I’ve told a meaningful lie in 14 years.”
Ben Gaffaney walks into a room with three wild-eyed legislators
On Brad Pitt's off-the-wagoning and an interview with Joe Schrank about reckoning with the consequences.
Part Two of our August check-ins.
How you can help me get TSB to more people. Pema! A rebooted essay about kids and meditation. New podcast with the oldest Sober Oldster ever.
Eulogy
The dark humanity and physicality of James Gandolfini
“He’s drinking more, not just some rowdy nights but something closer to gone, way out there, disappearing for longer and longer.”
It’s August, and TSB has a touch of reverse seasonal depression.
Here for the malaise and the adventure! Stoics. Edith draws Glen Hansard. Meeting makers make it. Quotes and songs.
Do you get kicked out of A.A. if you break your anonymity in the New Yorker?
