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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 was at a meeting the other day where the topic was this sentence: Working the program—especially the daily inventory of Step Ten—helps us make our w...

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 several meetings recently where we read from “Working with others,” the chapter of the Big Book that lays out how one alcoholic can be of ser...

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 get these awesome coupons every month from my favorite pet store, and I recently missed the window to use one. It expired on Oct. 26, and I went int...

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! Happy Thanksgiving! Of all the things to be thankful for today, make sure you take a moment to be grateful for your sobriety. I have some thoughts on...

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 hilarious meme the other day on one of my favorite Instagram feeds, Sarcastic AA memes. Look it up—it’s well worth your time. This one says “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 was at a meeting recently where a guy said, “I need to put down the blamethrower.” I laughed out loud—quite loud, actually. I was completely caught...

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 Nov. 10, I celebrated 15 years of sobriety. Hooray for me! I still can’t believe it: For several years, I couldn’t make it till noon every day with...

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! Somebody called me a go-getter the other day, and it was intended as a compliment and I interpreted it as a compliment. Honestly, it is a compliment—a...

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 the other day when we read the 12-step tradition that says certain fellowships ought to have no opinion on outside issues. I have 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! On Oct. 31, 1999, I was in college and got very sick with something called bacterial meningitis. It’s a freak illness that can kill you in 24 hours, 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 was very sad on Friday night when news broke that Matthew Perry had died. I had been a Friends fan, and I liked a few of his movies, too. I became a...

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 talking to a friend at the gym the other day and he said something that hit me hard. He is a physical trainer, and a good one. He asked me how m...

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 had two things pop up recently in recovery that made me sit back and say, “Holy s**t, thank God for our sober founding fathers and mothers.” First,...

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 talking to someone who I used to hang out with during my first year of sobriety, and one of the things he mentioned to me was how bumpy my entir...

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 had a pretty wild weekend, at least by 45-year-old sober guy standards. My wife and I took the kids back to our college, which is a massive football...

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 written many times about HALT—Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired—and its impact. I have found it to be a very valuable series of things to ask yourself...

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 premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! My wife said something interesting to me the other day. She said, “Every time I tell someone that you were really irritated about something, they can’t believ...

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 myself recently using the words “always” and “never” pretty freely when I was describing people or things. By that, I mean saying “You always...

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 Step Six at a meeting the other day. Step Six says “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.” I noticed within a...

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! During the pandemic, I hit a lot of Zoom meetings that were official 12-step group meetings. But I also joined a few small groups of 10-15 sober frien...

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 read the Fifth Step at a meeting the other day, and there was one sentence that really stuck with me. Here it is: All of us saw, for example, 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! When I had about three years sober, I remember getting into a knockdown, drag-out argument with a co-worker about how good a movie was. I remember thi...

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! About six months ago, I was on a road trip for work and hit a meeting in Florida. At that meeting, a guy shared that this was his first in-person meet...

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 the other day where we read Step Six, which deals with character defects. There is a section where the authors tick off a bunch of...

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 awhile back where someone celebrated three months sober, even though he didn’t have three months sober. He said, “I have two months...