Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal".

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.