# The Small Bow > Expanding the definition of recovery This file provides information about The Small Bow to help large language models understand and reference this publication's content. ## Posts - [The Stuff of Life](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/the-stuff-of-life): More stories from TSB readers about their relationships with food - [You Don’t Have to Listen to the Song](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/you-don-t-have-to-listen-to-the-song): Ben Gaffaney accidentally time travels - [Hope Is Another Word for Trust ](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/hope-is-another-word-for-trust-3d0e): Our readers tell us about calling 9-8-8. - [It Still Moves](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/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." - [The Feeling of Loss Is Cavernous](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/the-feeling-of-loss-is-cavernous): TSB Readers tell us about their relationships with food - [How Many People Never Thought You'd Change?](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/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. - [The Wound and the Bow](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/the-wound-and-the-bow): How The Small Bow got its name. - [For One-Night Only at This Church Basement: Robin Williams ](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/for-one-night-only-at-this-church-basement-robin-williams-253f): “He was that kind of person — so creative, smart, and expressive that he made you want to be that way too.” - [Interview With a 96-year-old Sober Person: Conny Caruso](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/interview-with-a-96-year-old-sober-person-conny-caruso): “I’m 96 years young, with 48 years of sobriety.” - [How to Feel Tired and Gross ](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/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?](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/what-is-it-like-to-have-food-run-your-life): An essay and prompt about Food Issues - [Boomers](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/boomers): An essay about happiness for all God's Adult Children. - [Secrets, No Lies](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/secrets-no-lies): Ben Gaffaney knows we’re all just getting by - [I Love You More Than I Hate Myself](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/i-love-you-more-than-i-hate-myself): More September Check-Ins, plus it’s recovery month. - [I Feel Like I’m Firing the Dog, Too](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/i-feel-like-i-m-firing-the-dog-too): Back to September, back to school, back to check-ins. - [This Is a Cult, Really](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/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. - [A Gentle Acknowledgment of Plain Humanness](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/a-gentle-acknowledgment-of-plain-humanness): Our roundup of TSB’s most popular August posts and podcasts. - [Hope Is Another Word for Trust](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/hope-is-another-word-for-trust): Our readers tell us about calling 9-8-8. - [Forgive Yourself or Live Like a Dog in Hell](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/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? ](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/what-s-it-like-to-ask-for-help): What happens when you call the suicide hotline? - [Interview With a 47-year-old Sober Person: Nick Catucci](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/interview-with-a-47-year-old-sober-person-nick-catucci): “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.” - [Learning to Parent, Learning to Be](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/learning-to-parent-learning-to-be): Ben Gaffaney walks into a room with three wild-eyed legislators - [Concern Isn't Clairvoyance](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/concern-isn-t-clairvoyance): On Brad Pitt's off-the-wagoning and an interview with Joe Schrank about reckoning with the consequences. - [Here in the Quiet Stillness](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/here-in-the-quiet-stillness): Part Two of our August check-ins. - [Several Voices Out of a Cloud](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/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. - [Wish We Could Make Another Run. Perhaps We Will. ](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/eulogy-james-gandolfini-4f69): The dark humanity and physicality of James Gandolfini - [Eulogy: James Gandolfini](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/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.” - [Nothing Is Wrong and Everything Is Wrong](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/nothing-is-wrong-and-everything-is-wrong): It’s August, and TSB has a touch of reverse seasonal depression. - [The Chronicles of August and More Hangdog Disgrace](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/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](https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/how-to-not-be-anonymous): Do you get kicked out of A.A. if you break your anonymity in the New Yorker?