Of Mice and Gwen

I found this quote while Googling for where I had a told a story involving my youngest son. You say, tell you facts and feelings. Well, facts first, they’re easier. Clem’s A.A. Battery is quartered in a girls’ school, from which he writes superbly funny letters. The girls are absent, of course, but their school-stories [...]

Like many people who grew up in dysfunctional, abusive families, I don’t really like the holidays.  Even normal, sane families go through stress around the decorating and gift buying and the unsatisfied expectations.  For the broken family it becomes a hell. One of the things my mother did to relieve the tension was to send [...]