Boundaries are not something well respected in a toxic family. One of the coping styles is placating. Children of addicts will sometimes try to appease the addict by apologize or do whatever is demanded. Boundaries are not a thing for children who choose to cope by appeasement. Charlie’s kin drink.Continue Reading
It’s today—2024-Oct-19. Charlie will be arraigned today. It’s 4am. Charlie can’t sleep. Yesterday his lawyer visited with him to prepare for court. It didn’t go well. Charlie was offered a plea deal to NRS 199.210—misdemeanor evidence tampering. He turned it down. Why risk a felony conviction, five years of stateContinue Reading
The fashy world of black block and a polite arrest record of protests is folly for a family trying to stay afloat in the coal hills of Wise County, VA. Neesha has deep hillbilly girl roots. She’s from the same southwestern corner of Virginia that Charlie’s kin are from. Charlie,Continue Reading
When it’s time to embrace the suck and power through most of us do. Charlie isn’t most of us. So he gives us content to enjoy.Continue Reading
That Come to Papa moment. Yes, I know, it’s “Come to Jesus” but some of my readers flop into convulsions on the mention of Him. Papa is a nephew of Ojiisan. His English name is William (Bill). Bill is inside on card counting charges. Ojiisan is upset so Bill getsContinue Reading
Most of us know when we have lost. And when we have found a boundary that is crossed, will not go well. AntiGa is not most of us. AntiGa is AntiAll. They are agin it. Agin what? Everything. Nothing is good. Everything is bad because of a short list ofContinue Reading
I said Sal would give the debrief. So here we go. To recap, it’s a month or so after Sal and his family executed their escape plan from PUDFARB. They are in Paradise Valley, NV at the casino. It is Sunday. Sal and his family are eating breakfast in theContinue Reading
Officer Krupky is Salvatore Jimenez. No, I’m not endangering him. Saito-san has him in a safe house for now. Sal defecting is one thing. Getting his family out and settled was next level. But. PUDFARB thinks with its heart. So it can be defeated. Saito-san and PUDFARB have some history.Continue Reading
Back then, Charlie was all that. High school football, adored by cheerleaders, Honors Society student, courted by Ivy League schools, the beaux of Ophie, who was the sought-after bell of the Bal du Bois. He was top ten with a bullet. Today? He lives in the staff dorm at aContinue Reading
Choices have consequences. Yeah . . . we know. We also know that revenge should be a cold dish. One more thing. Piranhas will eat koi. Ophie bought Charlie’s Goochland farm. He left an expensive mess that included an underground bugout shelter infested with rats and cockroaches. It was alsoContinue Reading