accepting family

[The Mad Wombat]

Originally Posted by jon_madelia

"familial politics"<-----those suck.

Tell me about it! I spent the last week with my biological family (for the first time in almost 35 years) and got a crash course in the polarization of my family. The Patriarch of the family seems to be my Grandfather (or "Poppy" as he likes to be called) who is a ranch running gunslinger (you'll hear more about him soon). I have a different Father than my little Brother and Sister but it seems he was a dead-beat who often smacked my Mom around (luckily I wasn't there!) his name was Gene Campbell. My little Brother's full name was Travis Gene Campbell but when he died in 2001 the only name on his headstone was Travis Campbell in an attempt to cut his Father out.