: About Me

I have one vivid childhood memory that sums up how it feels growing up with an alcoholic father. My mom and dad were screaming at each other again and my dad is doing his best to make my mom feel worthless. Suddenly amongst the screaming I hear dad say, "I will just kill myself and make everyone in the family happy." I could hear him fumbling with the gun cabinet trying to get it open. I stood in my room with my eyes squeezed shut listening and waiting for my mom to stop him or for him to pull the trigger and end the madness. To this day I'm not sure what outcome I wanted. My dad didn't ki...