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Oliver Buchannon
A.J. Daulerio

AJD Is founder and editor of The Small Bow.


Dark Nights of the Piss-Soaked Soul and Other Rotten Memories

Dark Nights of the Piss-Soaked Soul and Other Rotten Memories

Tell me about Your Last Worst Night. Plus: Nick Flynn. Pema. Stoics.

How to Play in the Darkness

How to Play in the Darkness

New pod episodes with Elizabeth Gilbert and Chris Witaske

How to Grow

How to Grow

Our Spring Member Drive is here and we need your help.

Head Games: Jaylon Johnson

Head Games: Jaylon Johnson

“The things that I would do in years past — how would I describe it? I didn’t value myself or see myself the way I do now.”

One Publix After Another

One Publix After Another

A family vacation in Singer Island, Fla. ends in a new personal reckoning.

How to Suffocate Your Feelings

How to Suffocate Your Feelings

Our latest podcast with actor Jerry O’Connell

All the Things

All the Things

What we talk about when we talk about the Small Bow Podcast

Farewell, 51

Farewell, 51

Birthday realizations.

Box Full of Darkness

Box Full of Darkness

Old personal resentments are lurking. Merton. The Four Agreements. Podcast preview.

Emotional Sobriety and the Internet: Foster Kamer

Emotional Sobriety and the Internet: Foster Kamer

“We shouldn’t turn away from the horrors of the world, but we don’t have to mainline them, either, and I question the motivations and judgment of anyone who believes that’s at all a controversial statement.”

Emotional Sobriety and The Internet

Libraries Kept Me Safe When the World Did Not

Libraries Kept Me Safe When the World Did Not

“Where do you find a place where books and culture are prioritized, but you have no money and smell like Alabama roadkill? The public library.”

What It's Like to Live and Amend

What It's Like to Live and Amend

How to forgive and then forge a friendship. New podcast launch. Poetry is Not a Luxury. Demons and Pema to the rescue.

The Bully

The Bully

Or "How to Be a Better Parent." Gratitude. One Minute Wisdom. Billy Collins. New Podcast Alert! Check-In Reminder.

Such Heavy Work

Such Heavy Work

A roundup of our most popular February posts.

Emotional Sobriety and the Internet: Kathryn Jezer-Morton

Emotional Sobriety and the Internet: Kathryn Jezer-Morton

“The content I’m looking at doesn’t make me feel bad, it’s the fact of looking, the fact of being defenseless against it.”

How to Shoot the Moon

How to Shoot the Moon

A truly phenomenal recovery week. Pema. Seneca. Emotional Sobriety -- all the damn things.

Celebrations of Life

Celebrations of Life

Thoughts on the resentment stage of grief.

How to Have Audacity

How to Have Audacity

Tales from an all-day photoshoot in North Hollywood. The best poetry compilation in awhile. New tune that's just the best. Hopes. Fears. And the rest.

How to Not Be Patronizing

How to Not Be Patronizing

God for the tone deaf. Thich Nhat Hanh. More emotional sobriety lessons to last a lifetime.

Outside Issues in the Unquiet City

Outside Issues in the Unquiet City

Emotional sobriety at the end of the world. Thomas Merton. Maggie Smith poem because why not. People to rally behind.

What Is It Like to Go to Sleep?

What Is It Like to Go to Sleep?

A new prompt for this month. Buddhism Megablast! Pema/Kornfield. More Ram Dass.

We Are All Drafts

We Are All Drafts

Maggie Smith is this month’s TSB Poet Laureate.

Blood Out of a Rock

Blood Out of a Rock

On personal growth. Fav poem about the current apocalypse. Tolstoy in a pinch. Depresh Mode.

How to Be a Maniac Dipshit

How to Be a Maniac Dipshit

It's resolution, baby. Jenny Odell. Alan Watts. Jim Harrison . And David Duchovny.

It's Okay If You're Not Ready

It's Okay If You're Not Ready

To be sober or something sober-ish in 2026.

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