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If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! According to the Hallmark Channel and every commercial on TV right now, this is the happiest time of the year. And some days, it does feel like that....

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! The other night, I went through my family’s finances at midnight. For an hour, I realized over and over again how sloppy we’d been for a month or so,...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! On Sunday night, we started getting some snow where I live in Connecticut. My older kids all of a sudden turned into local meteorologists, charting th...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! I was at a meeting recently where we read the part of the Big Book where Steps Six and Seven are introduced. Those are the steps that deal with charac...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! I heard an old YouTube interview with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson about the art of “getting over” in pro wrestling. By “getting over,” he meant that he...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! One thing I wanted to mention because I haven’t in awhile… Nelson H. isn’t my real name. It’s a pen name that I use for this newsletter. And I sometim...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! There’s soooooo much good stuff to read about sobriety, and how to get sober. I find all of the 12-step program literature to be incredibly valuable,...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! Well, the holidays are officially here. Good luck out there. It has been my experience that the hype around the lethal holiday trio—Thanksgiving, Chri...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! I saw Matthew Perry out on the book hype tour recently, and he seemed to be well on the road to recovery. The book is called “Friends, Lovers, and The...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! I read an interesting piece recently about how many of us lost certain levels of friendship during the pandemic. So I went searching for how experts d...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! Last Thursday was 14 years clean and sober for me. Congratulations to myself. Let’s take a moment to observe my greatness. Ahhhhh, okay, thank you ver...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! A quick programming note: I am writing and recording this entry on Nov. 9, which means you’re probably reading it on Nov. 10. Nov. 10 is my sober anni...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! I turned 45 years old last week, which means I am basically dead. Just barely hanging on at this point. My birthday is always an interesting experienc...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! I was at a great meeting recently where the topic was finding faith in sobriety, and someone shared the old slogan that “the opposite of faith is fear...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! We went trick-or-treating last night with my 8-year-old. My two older kids are too cool for Halloween now, so that’s kind of a bummer. But my second-g...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! At a meeting this week, we read from the Big Book appendix called “Spiritual Experience.” If you haven’t read it, I’d encourage you. It’s about a page...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! The other day, one of my kids was on a real heater. She thought every person she interacted with—including me—sucked, and she let you know it, too. I...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! I stumbled upon a recent study from the National Institute of Aging where researchers concluded that prolonged isolation has the same health implicati...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! I’ve been thinking about the seven deadly sins recently. I was at a meeting a few weeks ago where some people mentioned the seven deadly sins, and the...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! On the TV show Andor , which I discussed last week, a character used the phrase “The axe forgets, the tree remembers.” He was using it to make the poi...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! I heard an interesting podcast recently about the entertainment industry, called Blank Check . It’s about people in show business who have a huge hit,...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! Sometimes I target this newsletter toward a recovery topic. Sometimes I just try to tell an amusing story. This is one of those times. When I was a ki...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! Let me give you an example that most people have encountered in their life, one that exemplifies something I have been struggling with recently. Imagi...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! I stayed at a hotel recently, and I really liked the towels and the lotion bottle in my room. I loved how firm the texture of the towels was, and the...

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! I just started watching Andor, which is the 347th Star Wars spinoff show. Just kidding, it’s only like the 10th Star Wars spinoff. To give a quick min...