Ha! Great name. Thank you. Still wouldn’t eat one though.

They sell these at the fish markets in Korea. They’ve always made me laugh.

The Drama of the Gifted Child held my hand when I first went no contact. Susan Forward’s books also helped a lot.

Qualities you also have - the mother and the family are put on such pedestals that it’s a ridiculous taboo to challenge them, and I salute all those, including you, brave enough to speak trurh to superficial Hallmatk Card assumptions, in the service of their souls’ health.

I found a piece yesterday written by the daughter herself. Dear god what that woman put them theough! Dickens couldn’t make it up. I don’t think closure is an option for her children. I will always be grateful to Alice Miller, whose writings let me know that it is fine and natural not to forgive, and possible to move…

Could someone please take Camille’s adverb collection away from her?

I love this: http://gawker.com/this-brutal-obituary-is-a-reminder-to-be-good-to-your-c-1286582748

Isn’t it just. It’s a variety of things I think - genuinely well-meaning for some, however wildly misguided, and an all-too-human self-righteous busy-bodyness in most, whether they know it or not. Some just like the drama I think. Most if not all NMs use flying monkeys, few of them realise they’re being used.

Right? And it never ends. I’ve not spoken with my ‘mother’ since 2004 but still get the odd email from one of her flying monkeys telling me what an awful person I am. “I know it’s not necessarily my business, but ...”

I posted this a few months ago (and again earlier today! Because Trump!) but I doubt I was the first. I’ve been hanging on to it to use in the book about narcissism I’ll publish once my mother has died.

There’s such a thing as Double Jeopardy. If someone lies under oath about having lied under oath, is that Double Perjury?

From accessories to Accessory.

I know - talk about putting party before country! And proved just how out of touch and clueless he truly was in the process. My elderly father lives in Cornwall and reads the Torygraph - they certainly saw it coming down there.

While whistling his little tune 🙄