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
+6
To quit drinking and drugs on January 1st, 2025.
Relapse
+4
"I'll spend Christmas 2024 with my son, our first Christmas together in six years. ”
Sober parenting
+3
More Holiday Check-Ins
The Small Bow Family Orchestra
It is December! Woof--let's check in.
+10
Check-In reminder and November's best stories. Plus--the usual rundown of my weekly recovery routine.
Drunk Holiday Stuff
Today's meeting schedule--if you need 'em.
Calling for Holiday Check-Ins.
How to detach from the ones you love this holiday season.
Grace
+8
The holiday march begins.
+7
A TV writer reflects on her shitty summer of magical realism.
Depression
+2
To quit drinking and drugs on January 1st, 2024.
Recovery and loss during holidays. Dickens Et Cetera. A killer from Louise Glück.
AA Sponsorship
How to not yell at your toddlers.
An interview with our resident interventionist, Joe Schrank, about how to help the addict you love during the holidays. Plus our usual recovery rundown and a dreamy Frank O'Hara classic.
Dementia
+11
More dementia stuff. Four Agreements revisited. Plus, a good haunting Linda Pastan poem, mirth amidst the ruins et cetera.
"Once I finally crossed over to the he-did-the-best-he-could side of the aisle it was too late for us to reconcile, or for him to remember me."
by The Small Bow Family Orchestra
Lots of reading recommendations about common suffering. Plus, quotes from Montaigne about death, a James Tate heartbreaker, brain stuff.
Sober Holidays
"I think about those grim Christmases more than I do the magical ones."
It's the happiest unhappy time of the year. Plus, quotes from Thomas Merton, a Mary Oliver poem, and the rest of the log.
"I woke up to a coffee table full of smushed-up Fen-Phen, a tube of half-eaten summer sausage, and crumpled cellophane full of loose nuts."
+1
The emotional overload season is upon us. Plus, Robert James Waller, Pema Chödrön, a Stephen Dunn poem, cool ills.
