LOL Sober

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 great speaker at a meeting once who talked about being right. About how we all want to be right. That when we’re right, we feel smart. We fe...

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 did Step 1, I had zero disagreement. No part of me wondered if I could drink or do drugs any more. I was ready. I had come to believe with 100...

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 speaker meeting right when I first got sober, and the guy was an absolute wild man. It was one of the first speaker meetings I ever went 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’ve written about this topic before, but I think about it once a week, sometimes more. It’s a section from the book Living Sober, in the chapter call...

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 handed off my car to my oldest daughter and I figured I would clean it out first before officially giving her the keys. Oof. The car wasn’t hor...

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 tweet the other day where the author posted a screen grab from a legal message board. Someone had posted that she was getting divorced and bot...

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 huge part of what I call my higher power is the core belief that I trust the universe. Call it “what goes up must come down,” or “what goes around c...

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 somebody shared about the value of being “crewed.” In that context, he meant having a crew of sober people around yo...

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 of the things that kept me drinking and drugging for awhile is that I would evaluate myself with no outside input, and I would evaluate my drinkin...

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 men’s meeting the other day and a guy was pondering why he ended up naked at so many parties back when he was drinking. At first I laughed...

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! Fair warning: This edition of my sober newsletter is a bit R-rated. Maybe even NC-17. Proceed with caution. I went to a meeting recently where we read...

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 in Los Angeles awhile ago, and a woman shared about her experience with finding a higher power. She was like so many of us—not-so-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! I’ve read probably 25 different recovery books. Some are official literature as part of 12-step programs. Others, like Drop the Rock , are unofficial...

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 reading Steps 8 and 9 quite a bit at meetings recently, and it’s reminded me of a time I heard a wise old sober guy once discuss his experie...

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 run pretty much every day, and I run at pretty much the same pace—about 11 minutes per mile. And I usually run between 1-2 miles a day. I never real...

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 friend of mine asked me recently what my biggest pet peeve is, and I said, “I don’t think I have one.” He said, “Nothing? Really? You have kids, don...

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 a few days ago where we read We Agnostics from the Big Book, and there was one particular passage that jumped out at me because my...

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 driving near my house the other day when a car rushed in front of me and began to merge. Then the driver hesitated, and we both hit the brakes 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 joined a gym about a year ago, and I have made a bunch of good gym friends since then. It’s all dudes who regularly are there, so quite a few of 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! One of the most beautiful things I’ve learned in recovery is how to forgive—how to really, truly, honestly forgive. That includes forgiving 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 monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! I was at the gym a few days ago and used the ab machine. An older woman came over and seemed to be waiting to use it after me. When I got done, I went...

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 recently where I was barely present. I lost a close friend recently, and it was just so damn sad. I found myself in a haze for lar...

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 a section from the first 164 pages of the Big Book, and the word “licked” was used a bunch of times. As 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 remember when I went to rehab, I had a very specific thought about the reasons to get sober. First of all, to not die. And secondly, I wanted to be...

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 situation awhile ago where my daughter had two separate friend groups she was hanging out with. The groups liked her, but not each other. I th...