AJD Is founder and editor of The Small Bow.
The first hardcover TSB compilation is coming to an Indie bookstore near you this winter.
Poems and wisdom to help you get by when shit does not go your way.
Reminders on grief. Back to recovery rundowns. Roger Angell. An Ocean Vuong mantra. Denis Johnson poems.
Another fear, another nudge, and some leftover check-ins about Adderall and food.
Our next prompt is about your fears--deep, dark, or all that and more.
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An essay on dumb fear.
Adult Child adventures through caretaking and depression.
October Check-Ins are due. Please send yours in.
"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."
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.
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.
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.
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?
On Brad Pitt's off-the-wagoning and an interview with Joe Schrank about reckoning with the consequences.
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.
“He’s drinking more, not just some rowdy nights but something closer to gone, way out there, disappearing for longer and longer.”
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?
ASMR and other remedies for the sleep-phobic. Pema. Tolstoy. New pod with Swamp Dogg. .
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On Sleep phobias. Negative visualization is the key to happiness. Summer poetry. Quotes and songs.
