A Recovery Newsletter For Everyone
Part II of our March check-ins.
TSB Check-Ins
. . . and where we’re needed. TSB readers check in as the long winter closes.
“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.”
TSB readers on facing the death of a parent who caused them so much pain.
“I am 83 and if I don’t get drunk or otherwise wasted for the next few months, I will have been clean and sober for 26 years.”
This month, we’re trying to live honestly, no matter how much we miss pretending
How to sleep (or not), part two.
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.”
Part Two of our January 2026 (!) check-ins.
New year, new check-ins.
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The Best Days of 2025, as told by Small Bow readers
“Being alive, that’s the best thing about being in recovery.”
The holidays are here . . . and so is part one of our December check-ins.
Sober anniversary
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The Trey Anastasio Band livestream from The Beacon is free for everyone this weekend.
TSB Podcast
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We have a WOMEN AND NON-BINARY meeting at 1 p.m. PST/4 p.m. EST today. Plus the annual Thomas Lux banger.
Sober Thanksgiving
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We have one starting at 10 a.m. PST/1 p.m. EST on Zoom
TSB Zoom Meetings
Holiday Check-In time — and a poem to help you fight the coming gloam.
We have one starting at 9:30 a.m. PST/12:30 p.m. EST on Zoom
TSB’s Poet Laureate series returns. This month’s poet: Anthony Thomas Lombardi.
TSB Poet Laureate Series
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“I don’t have to become perfect. I just have to get up every day and do the work to get better.”
Sobriety
Plus the usual rundown: Philip Larkin. Thomas Merton. Thich Nhat Hanh.
Our readers tell their treatment center tales.
Joe Schrank
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Joe Schrank offers some alternatives.