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Communication tactics of the evil and unwell — My alcoholic and unwell sister phoned my grown daughter this week to update her on the decline of my parents, physically and mentally. She begged her to call her grandmother, who doesn’t understand why she doesn’t hear from the daughter of the daughter she deleted a few years ago. We’re…

Alongside a violent family of origin — When Brother Blacksheep was run off from my family of origin by our jealous mother at age 15, he naturally ran into the law. I was five. I remember snippets from hearing of his arrests, of him being in jail, of our parents going to court, of not seeing him…

Not that long ago — It was acceptable back in the day, at least in my small town, for people to dispose of their own pets should they become inconvenient. Forever etched in my memory banks is the story Brenda told me growing up that her dad would put the kittens they were not keeping…

Hard to know the diff sometimes — Once a well-known intuitive told me most all of my family of origin members are on the spectrum, and as a result, they don’t know how to conduct themselves. That was her simple answer. …

to the vulnerable. Let’s be real. — Their sexuality was the centerpiece of the dysfunctional family they spawned. We did not understand it at the time as we were children. Not consciously anyway. We did understand it through our pores though. We knew something was gravely amiss. Other people sensed also and stayed away in droves. Isolation…

You’re only making yourselves look bad, paradoxically — Where does the overabundance of religion in dysfunctional families come from? The simple answer is that it is a transport vehicle for assuage of guilt. Is it that simple, really? Do the molesters and liars and gas-lighters and flying monkeys need religion? …

Can be tough on the kids — Like many Depression-era parents, economizing was a top priority in the household in which they raised us. As it turned out, there ended up being an over-abundance of money in retirement. More than ever could be spent by two elderly people. The financial security allowed them to pick and choose…

Go ahead, underestimate me. — My inner circle whom I trust to read these posts will ask me, naturally, where are you going with all this memoir? Fair question. Thanks for asking. The first priority is to exorcise my memories and psyche of the emotional atrocities committed for generations. …