A careful man I want to be, a little fellow follows me. I wrote those words in January when I was three weeks sober. At the time, I said I wanted 2026 to be a clear year. A year where I stayed off alcohol, aside from our wedding and honeymoon. It’s now May, and that’s exactly how it has played out. I stayed sober for the first few months of the year. Then in April, Morgan and I got married. We went to Koh Samui for our honeymoon. I turned 40 that same week. I had a few drinks. I toasted my...

- A careful man I want to be, a little fellow follows me. There’s a little fellow watching me now. He watches how I wake up. How I speak. How I handle stress. How I recover from mistakes. And whether I like it or not, he’s learning what normal looks like by watching me live my life. I’ve done sobriety before. I’m not new to this. In 2009, I entered rehab for substance use issues that started in my teens and followed me through my early twenties. I got sober and stayed that way for...

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