Cats can climb up trees quickly, but because of the way their claws are curved, must back down the tree. Because of this, a house cat with no tree climbing experience can become stuck in a tree. Sometimes, we humans operate in much the same way.

Young love grows, dies out a little and then grows stronger than ever. It is a story about love conquering the things in life that seem beyond our abilities.

This is my Book starter chapter. If you would like to see how the story unfolds and/or help the story unfold go to www.chainbooks.com and go to my Author Page and click True Loves Power to write or read the next chapter. Feel free to write in any version of the story.

A poem I wrote about the good in me vs the bad in me, and recovery of drugs through AA.

For the cause of my everything, because you wouldn’t listen otherwise.

Part one of a 12-part, autobiographical series about addiction and recovery.

Getting past your heart.

Overboard… and all this time I thought I wasn’t trying hard enough but no I do believe I have gone overboard. How Over You I Was… hell I thought I was getting there and then I went to the library, she showed up on Facebook, and everywhere else…

A man goes to a self-help group for people recovering from being a prick.

Inch by inch.

35 of 50 haiku poems written on Friday, July 1, 2011 to document the day my husband had surgery. Each haiku deals with something that was around me that day from the time I left that morning until we were home and finally went to sleep.