Interview With A 71-Year-Old Sober Person: Kevin Teare

"I find recounts of someone’s mood-altering to be highly suspect. I mean, if you got it right, how high were you?"

Real quick–how many of you worried you'd lose your creative guts and spirit when you became sober?

It's a common fear—"How am I supposed to be interesting? What will invigorate me?"

In some ways, I did become skittish a…