Part two of our December check-ins.
Sober anniversary
+10
The holidays are here . . . and so is part one of our December check-ins.
+14
Say goodbye to Daylight Savings and hello to . . . November check-ins
A look back at another year of Sober Oldster questionnaires.
Sobriety
+5
October check-ins are here, and we’re just asking for a friend . . .
September check-ins are here.
“It’s hard feeling isolated in a roomful of partying people, and the hilarious thing is that that’s my job.”
August check-ins are here.
Calling for August Check-Ins.
The Small Bow Family Orchestra
+4
“When I was active, any stiff breeze, any mild bit of reversal, was enough to send me down into the narcissistic ball of pain. Now, mostly, I am just exceedingly glad still to be here.”
July check-ins are here.
“I was definitely born with the ‘need.’ That urge to put something between me and living.”
June Check-Ins, Part Two
Time for (Part One) of our June check-ins
+11
“Not only do I reliably know where I am when I wake up, I never wake up in pools of vodka vomit anymore. It’s so bad for your skin, you know . . . very corrosive.”
Ben Gaffaney on David Foster Wallace’s “This Is Water”
Death
+6
Gratitude! Pema. Kim Addonizio. Two new songs.
TSB Podcast
+3
May check-ins: feeling stuck, being patient, making progress.
“Like so many, I grew up with broken tools for relating to others, and alcohol became the way I learned how to do that.”
Poet
The April Check-Ins from our readers have arrived.
“It was my first experience of feeling left out.”
Alcoholism
“Life is so much simpler, in the best possible way. Nothing is perfect, but I can see things for what they are.”
Old friends, overstepping, rescuing others in an attempt to redeem yourself, and . . . Tom Cruise
+2
March check-ins: We’re making it through another day.
+9
And a call for March check-ins!
