My mother always outdid the other mothers in our 1950’s Washington, D.C. middle-class neighborhood. Especially in preparing extravagant meals for the chosen ones invited to our house by my father, your great granddaddy, the criminal. Being the 1950’s housewife, your great-grandmamma agreed with his decision and did all the work. So the chosen ones enjoyed …
Getting Them Before They Get Us Addictions can kill you. I know. I almost died. It was not until a mid-life event happened to me that I finally began to grasp the fact that I was raised in an alcoholic family. It was as if a jack-in-the-box had suddenly popped up and said: “Surprise!” “Surprise!” …
Who can forget the advertising icon of the strong, viril cowboy who roped horses, and smoked Marlboro cigarettes? Billboards populated the country, and men emulated Marlboro men and took to smoking. Don remembers his father, and other men who died along with the advertising campaign. But they were victims of smoking, dying of cancer.
Don Beaudreau discusses the importance of trees, “The sacredness of trees is deeply rooted in religious conceptualization in early humanity. This concept is based on the fundamental idea of the unity of life in nature.”
