Dec 19, 2017
Mother's first Husband was a Vietnam veteran. Prior to going to the war, he was the life of the party, fun, and exciting guy. When he came home, he was different. Intense PTSD episodes, excessive drinking, and at one point, almost killing mother. In this episode we discuss all of this, as well as the treatment of...
Dec 12, 2017
Mother had to fly to Monroe Louisiana when she was a young woman to escape her first husband. When she arrived she met some new family members that she had never met before and they were...interesting. These new relatives take her to a small town called Kelly, and while in Kelly mother starts to notice some strange...
Dec 5, 2017
Emmett Till. Just a mention of his name brings about a number of emotions. In 1955 this young black man was brutally murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Mother was a child and living near Los Angeles when the murder occurred and it sent shock waves through her family and community. In today's episode,...
Nov 28, 2017
In 1970 mother had a bit of a run in with the FBI. While she hadn't really done anything wrong, she was forced to wait in a jail in Los Angeles for a month until she had her trial. It just so happens that three of the Charles Manson Family women were also being held in this jail: Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten,...
Nov 10, 2017
In this weeks episode mine and mother's conversation turns towards her youngest children, one of them being my wife, Cherish and Charity. The two girls are twins and were born when mother was 40 years old. There were many complications along the way, and mother provides the story of one of them dying in the hospital,...