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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! I don’t pray as much as I should. I wish I could get more into it, and not just do it when people remind me. But honestly, it’s always been a weak par...

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! Football is back, and man, I gotta say, I was very much looking forward to it this year. I’ve had a topsy-turvy relationship with the sport over the y...

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 a tweet the other day from a sober person that made me smile. Then I looked at it again, and it made me laugh. Then I read it a third time and...

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 on the road for work recently, so I was by myself for a few days in a hotel room 1,000 miles away from where I live. One evening, I was driving...

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 took my family to Disney this year, and my youngest daughter really wanted a giant beach ball as a souvenir. She saw some kids who had bought one at...

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 someone share recently that she had a rough Zoom call and had a hard time not exploding at her boss. She wanted to push back on some of the co...

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 a story recently on Medium.com that said the average human being will meet 10,000 other people in their life. At first, I was a little dubious o...

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 a new movie that came out this past weekend called “Three Thousands Years of Longing.” It stars Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, and it’s basical...

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 wanted to talk about Better Call Saul, which concluded last week. For those who are unfamiliar, it is a spinoff series from Breaking Bad. If you are...

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 started itching my lower leg. Like, really itching. Like, itching to the point where later that night, one of my kids asked if I ha...

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 recently read a Fox Sports profile of Maxx Crosby, who is a great young NFL player for the Las Vegas Raiders. He got sober a few years ago, and it’s...

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 went to a meeting in another state recently, and I desperately needed it. I’d traveled about 1,000 miles over 5 days in a minivan with my wife and t...

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 think I have mentioned this before, but this newsletter is not my full-time job. In my full-time job, I use my real name but I am a writer for a pre...

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’m going to tell you a story from this past weekend that feels really wild to me, and I swear it’s 100 percent true. Sometimes I’ll meld together a s...

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 am in a pretty spiritual place these days. Key word: pretty . By that, I mean, I have moments almost every day where I want to pull my hair out abou...

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 athlete autobiography recently where he mentioned that humans have between 2,000-3,000 thoughts per day. So I went down a Google wormhole an...

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 listen to guided meditations sometimes whenever I feel like my brain is going too fast to meditate without somebody holding my hand. If you haven’t...

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 have been thinking a lot lately about the relationship between my social media use and my addictive personality. I don’t do much social media, but 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 think a good chunk of the people who subscribe to this newsletter are in recovery themselves. But I also know a bunch of subscribers who are just in...

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 learned almost right away how important service is to sobriety. I remember I only had a week or two sober when my first 12-step group voted me in as...

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 a speaker at a meeting recently who said something so profound I am still thinking about it. He said the real tragedy once active addiction ha...

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 an old PSA from the 1980s warning kids to stay away from drugs, with a specific recommendation to avoid marijuana at all costs. It use...

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 a little bit recently about real gratitude versus gratitude-with-strings-attached. I sometimes have been catching myself doing nice...

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 caught a really interesting Daily Reflections reading the other day. Here it is: OVERCOMING LONELINESS November 17 Almost without exception, alcohol...

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 recently joined a gym for the third time in my life, and I realized in that moment that this was the first time I was doing it for the right reasons...