: About Me

i'm laid back but still act a fool regularly. teach college, am underpaid, political, a feminist, dog person, overly compassionate, into rockin' out, tattoos, the beach, surfing, drinking, reading, writing, driving fast, am very accident prone, and the most graceful faller i know.

My passion is ...

social justice (and dogs and bargain shopping)

I know too much about ...

hollywood gossip

My parents always told me ...

"you can be anything you want to be"

My childhood ambition ...

to be a veterinarian

Why I write ...

for sanity and purpose

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Girls Studies stuff/Entourage/Common

My first job ...

Arby's (shameful! but no one else would hire 15 year olds)

My best moment ...

in class, teaching

My inspiration ...

all the women before me

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Addiction

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for the addict in you i am quitting you bad habit you make me small and weak sad too i cave into myself so private, denial goddamn you make me hide trembled cried the most shameful part i've lied and lied this is the bottom i've drawn this line forcing the demon out i circle myself facing my face tears in place such a brutal task being far from grace from the home in my heart to my head my mother and me apart (i'm dead) emptiness knows no bounds i draw into my shell leaving a trace of my presence in this personal hell aware of the luck beneath it all secret thank yous for letting me fall t...

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