Today my partner recieved her benefits guidebook for 2009-2010.  Since we bought a home together last year and are a few months shy of our 3rd anniversary, we've decided that its time for me to go on her health insurance. 

As we sat reading the book tonight two paragraphs leapt… Read full post »

the drinking hasn't stopped

because you still don't call

because I still don't remember how you felt

how you feel

even when I lie next to you, I can't quite recall exactly

what led me drug me dragged me has me

here

I still drink to feel the fear

to feel… Read full post »

There is one thing all teachers know how to do.  We may not all be able to teach, we may not all be able to impart knowledge or a love of reading, or math.  Some of us can get our students to feel like we absolutely love them and they are… Read full post »