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A.J. Daulerio
A.J. Daulerio

AJD Is founder and editor of The Small Bow.


What It's Like to Be Afraid

What It's Like to Be Afraid

Our next prompt is about your fears--deep, dark, or all that and more.

Just Look at the View

Just Look at the View

An essay on dumb fear.

Via Chicago Fire

Via Chicago Fire

Adult Child adventures through caretaking and depression.

How Can I Fix This?

How Can I Fix This?

October Check-Ins are due. Please send yours in.

It Still Moves

It Still Moves

"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."

How Many People Never Thought You'd Change?

How Many People Never Thought You'd Change?

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.

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The Wound and the Bow

The Wound and the Bow

How The Small Bow got its name.

How to Feel Tired and Gross

How to Feel Tired and Gross

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.

What Is It Like to Have Food Run Your Life?

What Is It Like to Have Food Run Your Life?

An essay and prompt about Food Issues

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Boomers

Boomers

An essay about happiness for all God's Adult Children.

This Is a Cult, Really

This Is a Cult, Really

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.

Forgive Yourself or Live Like a Dog in Hell

Forgive Yourself or Live Like a Dog in Hell

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’s It Like to Ask for Help?

What’s It Like to Ask for Help?

What happens when you call the suicide hotline?

Concern Isn't Clairvoyance

Concern Isn't Clairvoyance

On Brad Pitt's off-the-wagoning and an interview with Joe Schrank about reckoning with the consequences.

Several Voices Out of a Cloud

Several Voices Out of a Cloud

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: James Gandolfini

Eulogy: James Gandolfini

“He’s drinking more, not just some rowdy nights but something closer to gone, way out there, disappearing for longer and longer.”

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The Chronicles of August and More Hangdog Disgrace

The Chronicles of August and More Hangdog Disgrace

Here for the malaise and the adventure! Stoics. Edith draws Glen Hansard. Meeting makers make it. Quotes and songs.

How to Not be Anonymous

How to Not be Anonymous

Do you get kicked out of A.A. if you break your anonymity in the New Yorker?

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When the Resistance Is Gone, So Are the Demons

When the Resistance Is Gone, So Are the Demons

ASMR and other remedies for the sleep-phobic. Pema. Tolstoy. New pod with Swamp Dogg. .

All Things Go

All Things Go

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It's All In Your Head

It's All In Your Head

On Sleep phobias. Negative visualization is the key to happiness. Summer poetry. Quotes and songs.

You Will Have to Clean Up This Mess

You Will Have to Clean Up This Mess

How do I care for an elderly parent who’s treatment-resistent and fucking up the end of her life?

What Does Bad Recovery Look Like?

What Does Bad Recovery Look Like?

And will your whole life go to shit? Plus: It's Mary Oliver SZN. Step Six. Mary H.K. Choi. Check-in time for July.

Attraction Through Promotion

Attraction Through Promotion

A rundown of our recent podcast episodes — and a humble request for your participation in a wild idea.

Time Eats the Sun

Time Eats the Sun

Our next “What It’s Like . . . ” prompt is about what it’s like now.

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