Last August, an incarcerated friend of mine asked me to help him get into contact with his counselor, whom he hadn’t been able to reach. From that point on, I became an advocate and messenger. My friend had the support of his community; his loved ones sent money to deposit into his commissary account and to make sure they could talk to him via the kiosk system.
Hi there, Daily Kos community!
My name is Robyn Parks and I am a 26-year-old writer and mother of a toddler boy. I began writing as a coping mechanism for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that lead to repetitive actions that may affect a person’s daily activities. It started off as writing songs when I was little; more specifically, the songs were commercial jingles written to beats from popular music.