7 tips to survive a family holiday sober

+ every article on surviving the holidays sober ever

I originally wrote this post, FKA 6 Tips to Survive Thanksgiving* (*Sober)¹, in 2014, on a MegaBus traveling from San Francisco to Los Angeles (8 years ago from today, exactly) The bus broke down for a few hours, long enough for us to order pizza on the side of the highway, and I made it into LA around midnight. I stayed up until three a.m. writing becau…