Life on Life’s Terms

I was born in Washington DC in 1951. I spent my childhood in Virginia and my teen years in Annapolis, Maryland. I am the second oldest child in a family of six children, the oldest girl. No one came out of my family unscathed. All but one has drug and alcohol problems. My sister one year younger than myself drank herself to death at the age of 41. I don’t consider my parents bad people, just bad parents. My mother drank to escape, my father drank because that’s what people did