Frozen Sober: The Warm Meaning of a Winter Swim
Once upon another time, Ed Kressy couldn’t have cared less about being sober, let alone feeling frozen sober. Yet this year he travelled clear across the country in order to find out what it feels like to be just that. Before you break out the applause though, bear in mind that the man Kressy joined jumps into the Atlantic each…
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The Bond Between Good Deeds and Sobriety
Everybody knows how much good deeds help both the doer and the receiver, but there’s an especially strong bond between good deeds and sobriety. In fact, the bond between the two dates back to sobriety’s inception. No matter how you calibrate the birthday. And it continues to this very minute. Actually, you could say the bond between goods deeds and…
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From Blackheart to Troubadour: Ricky Byrd’s Sober Road Show
One might think being one of Joan Jett’s Blackhearts would be all peaches and cream. It was really more like Jack and cocaine. At least it was for Ricky Byrd when he played guitar in the band. And Byrd did enough of both to kill a few folks, as well as himself. In fact, he almost did. Kill himself that…
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Happy ReBirth Day, AJ McLean!
Anybody looking for another juicy tale of scandal and fail can stop reading right now. Why? Well, in the first place we don’t story like that. In the second, we’ve got better things to talk about. Things like AJ McLean celebrating one year of sobriety. Those kinds of things. That’s right. The former Backstreet Boy picked up his gold coin…
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Keith Urban’s Inspiring Sobriety
Keith Urban’s inspiring sobriety apparently knows no limits. Just ask fellow country crooner Brantley Gilbert, who was the recipient of some of Urban’s strong sober support. But Gilbert’s not the first to benefit from Urban’s generosity. He’s just the latest. The latest in a very long line of incredibly grateful recipients. Then again, Keith Urban has been sober since 2006….
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