Nelson H.

LOL Sober

How to laugh your ass off in sobriety nelsonh.substack.com

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Nelson H.

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Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

Oh nooooooo, my social media crashed! 07.10.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. On Monday, large chunks of the social media landscape crashed and everybody was talking about it. There have been quite a few headlines...

Did you used to dread holding hands and saying prayers together? 05.10.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. I was at an in-person meeting the other day, and at the end, we stood behind our chairs, six feet apart in masks, and said a prayer toge...

Five (terrible) ideas to improve recovery 30.09.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. Ever thought you had a good idea—or three—to make recovery better? Me too. I obviously have brilliant ideas that the whole world would b...

I agree with Rihanna: We found love in a hopeless place! 28.09.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. I was driving my daughter somewhere recently, and the song “We found love” came on. I hadn’t heard it in a long time and I love the song...

Yep, I still don't know what the f--- I'm doing 23.09.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. There’s a very funny Instagram account that I follow called Sarcastic AA Book. It’s memes and jokes about sobriety, and I like the overa...

Sober for weddings? The Super Bowl? How?!?! 21.09.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. I went to a wedding this weekend, and it struck me how much weddings used to be one of my fears about getting sober. How could I stay so...

The beauty of a sober Saturday 17.09.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. It’s free! If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. A little housekeeping first: Just a heads up that next week I’m going to start publishing on Tuesdays and Thursdays rather than Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Fall gets crazy at my house so I may be strapped for time more than usual. I wanted to talk about something I heard r...

It's OK to love TV too much (I think?) 15.09.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. Football season kicked off a few weeks ago, and I found myself more excited than ever. I spent some time contemplating why that might be...

It's Recovery Month, not Addiction Month 13.09.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. I’ve been reading quite a bit the past few days about September being Recovery Month, and I found myself gravitating toward some of the...

"Troubled mind, sensitive heart" 10.09.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. It’s Friday and I feel lazy. So I’m going to keep this one short and sweet. I just wanted to pass along something I heard this week that...

An incredibly uncomfortable sober moment 08.09.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. A few weeks ago, I went to a P.F. Chang’s for lunch in Cincinnati, Ohio. I needed a quick bite to eat on a business trip and before you...

Why do I hate getting compliments?! 06.09.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. The other day, somebody told me I did an awesome job on something… and I cringed. Like, a guttural “Oh, no!” feeling came over me. Those...

More flooding, more recovery lessons 03.09.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. For the second time this month, my house got overwhelmed with water from a hurricane passing through Connecticut. I went downstairs at m...

The magical recovery wonders of peanut butter cups 01.09.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. I’m in the middle of a rough stretch. There’s nothing hugely problematic going on at home or at work. I haven’t skipped a bunch of meeti...

Why am I nicer to strangers than my family? 30.08.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. I’ve been catching myself overly frustrated with my kids sometimes recently. As usual, it wasn’t really that anything changed with them...

I still only follow MOST of the rules 27.08.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. I traveled to Virginia this week, and I was driving in a small town one afternoon when I got to a red light. There was a sign clearly sa...

The "great man" mirage 25.08.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. Let me start this with a question: What is the definition of being a great person? I was watching a TV show the other day where one char...

I'm not the emergency any more 23.08.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. As I write this, a hurricane is bearing down on New England, and the town I live in looks like it will be hit very hard. So I spent last...

When life gives you smelly basement water, make lemonade 20.08.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. I was in a rut on Wednesday night with a writing project that I am working on, and it followed me into Thursday morning. I woke up and t...

The biggest lie I tell myself 18.08.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. Stop me if you’ve seen this movie before… I did a bunch of stuff with my family yesterday, so I pushed off some other work and personal...

The Blair Witch-ishness of sobriety 16.08.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. I saw a meme about recovery on Instagram the other day that really hit me at the perfect time. It said: “It takes as long to get out of...

A wild sober fight story 13.08.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. On the way home from a meeting recently, I stopped at a gas station near my house. I immediately flashed back to 2013, when I had five y...

The life lessons of a dying snake 11.08.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. I took a run a few days ago through a residential neighborhood, and about three minutes in, I saw something moving on the ground ahead o...

My inner voice still suckssssssss 09.08.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. I had to drive up to New Hampshire this weekend, and it was my first time ever in the state. I was only there for about a half hour, but...

The grocery store rando who kept me sober 06.08.2021

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m not putting anything behind the paywall for a little while longer, so if you choose the free option, you’ll receive everything without paying. If you’d like to contribute anyway, many thanks. I had a longggg day earlier this week, and I had to hit the grocery store at about 9 p.m. I was grumbling about having to yet again spri...

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