The satirical paper has another great take on quitting drinking. — Earlier this week, the satire website The Onion released a great post titled “Husband Pledges To Stay Sober For 1 Or 2 Weeks While Wife Pregnant.” Like all good satire, the jokes in the piece are well-grounded in reality. As you can tell from the title, the basic premise is…

I tracked everything I ate for 2 weeks to create this list. — Is it hard to get protein as a vegetarian? When I first stopped eating meat, this was my biggest concern. However, I’ve been a vegetarian for the past few years now, and I’ve been relieved to realize that getting protein isn’t too tricky. For the past couple of weeks, I’ve…

A quick summary of how I improved by 100 points in one year. — Last week, I reached an exciting new milestone in chess: I increased my rating on Chess.com to over 1400. That puts me in about the top 6% of all players on the site. I learned to play chess as a kid but didn’t start playing regularly until late 2020. Now…

Starting a blog this year? Read this first. — If you’re new to blogging, I’d like to share ten tips to help you start on the right foot. Why should you care about my advice? The answer is simple: I wrote my first blog post in 2018 without any clue about what I should be doing. …

An article a day to keep the cravings at bay. — If you’re thinking about getting sober, congratulations! I know from experience that it’s incredibly hard to overcome an addiction but also worth the effort. After a decade of alcoholism, I quit drinking at the end of 2016. Getting sober was one of the best decisions I ever made. I’ve been…

When I stopped drinking, my emotions went wild. — I’ve often called the first year of my sobriety an “emotional roller coaster.” After a decade of heavy, daily drinking, I had developed a physical and mental reliance on alcohol. When I stopped, the psychological impact was massive. Sobriety brought at a massive range of emotions, but in this article…

A “sober bar” in Ohio closed after less than a year. — A Short-Lived Sober Bar I stumbled across a news item this week about a sober bar in Columbus, Ohio that was closing shop after just seven months. The bar, named The Dry Mill, had opened at the tail end of April, funded in part through a Kickstarter campaign. It served as an entirely alcohol-free…

What does it mean to treat writing like a full-time job? — Do you want to write for a living? If so, I have to warn you: It’s not always as glamorous as it sounds. After writing on and off for well over a decade, I’ve spent the past four months making a serious go at writing full-time. Read more: Can I…