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Who Am I If I'm Happy?
More Men Who Are Afraid: With Ky Henderson, Wilson Sims, Wesley Lowery, and Kevin Koczwara.
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More on What It’s Like to Be Addicted to, Yes, Weed
“Plenty of people have a normal relationship with weed. Surely, this time, I can too?”
Sep 23
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Exactly the Right Amount of Pain
Can we achieve it by giving up our morning cold brew?
Sep 21
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Ben T G
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Too Large and Looming
TSB’s Poet Laureate series returns. This month’s poet: Natalie Shapero
Sep 19
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Interview with a 56-Year-Old Sober Person: Elizabeth Gilbert
“I honestly cannot think of anything about being in recovery that is harder than not being in recovery.”
Sep 16
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Oldster Magazine
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Doing Our Level Best to Stay Level
September check-ins are here.
Sep 2
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Why the Impulse to Suffer?
August check-ins are here.
Aug 5
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Getting to Just Unhappy
July check-ins are here.
Jul 1
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What It’s Like to Be Addicted to P*rn
Our next check-in is here: “I would never talk about paying for sex with strippers, never talk about looking at animal porn, and sure as hell never talk…
Jun 10
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Sober Oldster
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Interview with a 56-Year-Old Sober Person: Elizabeth Gilbert
“I honestly cannot think of anything about being in recovery that is harder than not being in recovery.”
Sep 16
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Oldster Magazine
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Interview with a 54-Year-Old Sober Person: Rhett Miller
“It’s hard feeling isolated in a roomful of partying people, and the hilarious thing is that that’s my job.”
Aug 19
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Oldster Magazine
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Interview with a 63-Year-Old Sober Person: Rick Moody
“When I was active, any stiff breeze, any mild bit of reversal, was enough to send me down into the narcissistic ball of pain. Now, mostly, I am just…
Jul 15
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Oldster Magazine
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Interview with a 56-Year-Old Sober Person: Margaret Cho
“I was definitely born with the ‘need.’ That urge to put something between me and living.”
Jun 17
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Oldster Magazine
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TSB Essays
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We’ll Make Great Pets
“In a wine-drunk fugue state, I’d sent half a dozen emails to a Korean woman I’d never met, demanding that she PayPal me 500 American dollars, or else I…
Apr 18
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Meaghan Garvey
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About God...
“What if it’s not so much that I don’t believe in God, but that I do, and just haven’t accepted it yet?"
Mar 11
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The Real Sarah Miller
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What Does It Mean to Be "In Recovery" Anyway?
“I had impostor syndrome -- but for slowly killing yourself.”
Feb 25
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Steve Kandell
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Recovery From Solitary Is An Illusion
“You can never go back to what you were, and what you could have been will always be out of reach.”
Jan 28
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