Advice Dear Businesslady: How Do I Do Right By My Coworker?
The Toast's job advice columnist on how best to help an alcoholic coworker and manage/mentor a young employee.
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Link Roundup Buttered This Week: July 24-31
A list of links to everything on The Butter this week.
The Butter Heroes: Finding My Home in Addiction and Recovery Stories
"The home I found was in books and stories about recovery . . . I read more books about addicts and alcoholics, and their words made me want to be alive."
Family Your Dad is Still Your Dad: On Family and Alcoholism
The author on her father's alcoholism, her relationship with him, and what it's like to have a parent in jail.
LGBT Substance Abuse in the Trans Community: Why We Need Better Resources
Milo Scanlon on drug use in the trans community, and the lack of resources for addiction treatment and support.
The Butter The Meaning of the Moon: On Family and Addiction
On almost losing a parent to addiction, and the difficulty of reconciling the pain, anger, and guilt that experience brings.
Family Disarmed
A Southern woman reconsiders race and violence in the wake of her brother's death.
Family Black Oil: My Dad, Addiction, and The X-Files
Jess Bergman on watching "The X-Files" with her father.
Books This Week in Reading: Man Books, the July Issue of Esquire and Polio
Nicole Cliffe reviews her last week in reading, including works by Paul Carr and David Oshinsky.
