“How do you know when an alcoholic lets go? By the claw marks” – anonymous
Her dad was useless, unpleasant, and then he was gone. Her mom was judgmental, depressing, and clingy, demanding solidarity with her resentments against dad. From an early age Marianne was assigned the role of...
“Hit the road, Jack, and don’t you come back no more, no more, no more, no more!
Hit the road, Jack, and don’t you come back no more,” - Ray Charles.
He never laughed and he barely smiled, a grin perhaps, for cover. He went through the motions, where activities in this impoverished...