AJ got sober in the middle of the Hulk Hogan trial, three months in, every defect of character tossed to a jury. He calls it fourth step dinner theater. He built The Small Bow afterward for people who are past rock bottom and a little adrift, which is a lot of you. We tried to name the category sober media belongs in. I said The Sober Curator is sober BuzzFeed and The Small Bow is literary meat.
My desk has a sexy red Rachel Zoe lipstick lamp, a monitor covered in stickers from people I love, a Diet Coke, and a keyboard in a shade that makes me genuinely happy before I have typed a single word. I did not plan any of this. I just kept choosing things that felt like me. Turns out that is the whole strategy.
Sobriety, as the hosts and contributors of the Sober Curator Podcast remind us, is far more than abstaining from alcohol.…
