I Can Play Rhythm Guitar. I Know

You Can't Live A Truthful Life Without Regret.

Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover 'til You've Read The Book.

We Sit At Our Consoles And Play "gears Of War", But We Don't See Images From War. We Don't Turn On The News And See The Evidence Of War, The Result Of War. Maybe Twice A Year, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, We'll Go Out, We'll Hang Our Flags, We'll Try To Inculcate In Our Children Some Sense Of National Honor For The Fallen. But Really, We Don't See It. We Just Don't See The Pictures. There's No Drive-by On The Freeway Of Death Up Close. So We Don't Really See Bravery.

I Work With The National Center On Addiction And Substance Abuse At Columbia University. I Sit Proudly As One Of Only Two Recovering Addicts On Their Board.

If Indeed It's A Race Then The Chicks Do The Most It Isn't A Brag Or An Estrogen Boast It's The Women Who've Led Me With Big Open Hearts If Not For Their Love I'd Have Failed At The Start. And It's Not Just The Mothers I Speak Of Them All It's A Woman There First When Somebody Falls. The Multi Of Tasking That's Easy To Tease I Dare A Great Man To Try It All, Please! So This Is My Shout Out My Rallying Cry To Women All Over I Hold You Up High And Though There Are Others Who'll Think This Poem Strange It's The Women Who Plant The Root Of Big Change.