I bought a tiny record player and two different brands of tiny albums, and discovered after filming the entire unboxing that one set doesn't fit. My full review of the mini vinyl craze, plus the sober milestone gift idea hiding inside those blind balls.

Six years ago, on August 1, 2020, The Sober Curator went live in the middle of a pandemic, with no funding, no staff, and no real plan beyond a very stubborn belief that sober people deserved something better to read than another list of reasons to quit drinking.

Six years later there are 30-plus active contributors on this thing. More than 500 combined years of lived sobriety. Nearly a million people have come through the site. And somewhere in year five it stopped being a website and started being a room full of people.

So for our sixth anniversary, we did the only appropriate thing.

We made you a mixtape. Only 100 are being created of Volume 001. Order yours today.

What if August wasn't about becoming someone new, but noticing who you've already become? Inspired by the Celtic harvest tradition of Lughnasa, Anne Marie Cribbin shares a simple recovery ritual for gathering the small wins, ordinary joys and quiet evidence that your sober life is already growing.

Sabyn Mayfield went three days without speaking and came home with the song of my summer. The Season 1 favorite is back to break down "WORTHY," his new single with Callie, the black-and-white video that needed zero notes on the first cut, and why the best art gets made when you stop keeping score.