At 40, my workaholism landed me in emergency heart surgery. Ten years sober and I still hadn’t figured out how to hold a job without letting it hold me. Lynnae Brown figured it out from inside a job she couldn’t leave. Her first question: do you even want the promotion?
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.
