Is Straight Edge Still Sober?
Sober is punk. Or is it?
Interview With a 54-Year-Old Sober Person: Dionne Ford
“I started drinking when I left home my junior year of high school for an exchange program, and by the time I was in my final year of college, I’d been arrested twice and tried to kill myself - drinking was the common denominator. A priest, a counselor, and a boyfriend recommended I try AA, and I’m glad I did.”
Family Resemblance
“The first time I got drunk as a teenager in New Jersey, I got very drunk. I threw up red Gatorade that my mother thought was blood. The next day she told me that I could not drink, in a rare tone she had that I understood as “do not fuck with this.”
Interview With a 72-Year-Old Sober Person: Martha Frankel
“I’ve learned how to leave parties earlier than I used to.“
Interview With an 80-Year-Old Sober Person: Sydney Lea
“I really don’t think much about death unless I stop living my life, as my recovery community advises, a day at a time. “
How Do I Date Sober?
The art of not-drunk sex.
Impossible People
An excerpt from Impossible People.
How I Stay Alive
Clancy Martin on how not to kill yourself.
The Rise and Fall of Sad Keanus
Our readers check in about breakups, depression, relapses, and job shit.
Windows
Erin Khar on grief.
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How to survive grief.
“I just drank an entire bottle of wine in a hotel room while my partner sleeps next to me and I feel like shit. ”
Throughout the holidays, our readers tell us how their sobriety is holding up.
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