As Richardson reminds us, "People make sense of their lives, for the most part, in terms of specific events." The author develops a set of poems based on his autoethnography study on Children of Alcoholics (COA). As the author reads Paulo Freire through alcoholism discourse, he creates a link between COA and his own school experiences. While the author questions his desire for education, he continues to excel in his studies to overcome particular life obstacles. To raise awareness for all educators, his postmodern work attempts to show the dimensions of family alcoholism and how it might impact ones views of their own schooling experience.