Relationships are like fat people.  Most of them don’t work out.

“Listen, smile, agree and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.” 
His words came at me like a speeding fist, like a sucker punch, yet somehow in that moment I was able to duck. 




180 days

Six months ago I was watching my sons father being carted out of the house and into an ambulance for a possible overdose.  OVERDOSE!  What?  Really?  The world in that moment moved in slow-motion, hit with tunnel vision, vertigo… I could hear ever pump of my heart racing to keep me standing.  As I turn to the house, there stood a boy who once laughed without fear of the future now wide eyed with fear.