There will come a day when you aren't going to think that going to the library with your mom is pretty much the best thing in the world. But that day is not today. Today we stop at the Dunkin' Donut drive thru and as I order a large black coffee and munchkins for your …
From Homelessness to Parenthood: If This Backpack Could Talk
It's been used as a pillow and a blanket on park benches and under trees. It's been used as a closet for your one other set of clothing. It's been used as a weapon to ward off other homeless folks trying to steal your $.37. It's been used as a safe for that same $.37. …
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The Things We Keep
I'm surrounded. Sitting on the floor in the midst of piles of clothes. Piles of giveaways and keeps. Keep for next year if big enough or keep to donate. Keep to give to the sets of boy/girl twins we know or the final pile, the KEEP FOREVER pile. The things we keep. The shoes are …
Too Sober For This 