My parents were… odd. My mother suffered from bouts of paranoia and schitzophrenia. To treat her paranoia, she drank. A lot. My father dealt with her irratic behavior by withdrawing into himself. They had no friends. They had no social life. They lived an incredibly isolated existance – the island of odd. Not knowing any…
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The King is dead; Long live the King.
This is a picture of my grandfather, Pierson Mitchell Hall. I almost never talk about him.? I don’t think I’ve ever written in public about him. He was a lot of different things to a lot of different people.? In his hey day, he was one of the most powerful and influential men in California.?…