LOL Sober

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 have kids, and a job, and a marriage, and chronic pain, and bills to pay, and disagreements with friends, and I’m an addict… but nothi...

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 tweet the other day where a guy said he had just gotten sober a few months ago and he asked on Twitter, “Hey, anybody else out t...

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. If you’ve been to any 12-step meetings, you’ve probably heard the spiritual axiom mentioned roughly 4,000 times. I’ll throw it out there...

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 another hilarious meme from Sarcastic AA Book the other day. If you don’t follow that account on Instagram, you’re missing out on...

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. October is rough for me. Not bad. Not good. Just rough. Let me run through just a list of stuff I associate with October. —I have two im...

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 an old interview with Anthony Kiedis from the Red Hot Chili Peppers and he was talking about the meaning behind “Under the bridge....

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. This newsletter is mostly about recovery. But once in a while, I’m going to tell you a funny story from my drunken days. They always hel...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...