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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 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...

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...