This is the story of a respectable, hard working American family:
1. Father is dead- was probably an alcoholic
2. Oldest child is a retired high-ranking city official, now living 12 hours away from her elderly widowed mother. She tends bar in her spare time. She never returned a call from me asking for help to do an intervention for her brother.
2. Second child is recently retired, as is her husband. The husband and both sons like to smoke marijuana. They are planning to move 15 hours away from her elderly mother. The husband also brews his own beer.
3. The youngest child is the only boy, and a late stage alcoholic.
4. The elderly mother stays home in prayer (worry) and medication (prescription mood altering drugs.)
These are my in-laws.
Today, I am wondering if the whole friggin' world isn't on fire.
