Hi out there!

Hope y'all are well. I'm just sitting here with my morning coffee and thinking about things. There's this really weird situation happening in life that could use some thought. My daughter Alicia is dating a man who has had two previous physically abusive relationships with women and who cannot understand why my daughter doesn't behave violently toward him. Stuck in a pattern, it seems, he tries to methodically push her buttons in order for her to give him a negative response...to blow up...to react on him.... As if he wants her to hit him.

That's pretty strange. Why would someone actually want that I don't know. My former husband was the same though. Almost like he desired it deeply.

I rarely speak about my dad. Perhaps it's because he and my mother divorced when I was fourteen and he went away on a semi-perm basis to start his career as the "coffee shop guy". He also remarried beginning a new family.

As the "coffe shop guy" he's worked on his character over 30 for years to ultimately fulfill what you'd expect to chat with if you sat on a stool next to him at Dunkin Donuts. Waking at 3am every day, he makes his rounds to all the breakfast places in St. Bernard Parish talking to everyone about anything. Politics, current affairs, gossip or just to tell a very elaborate story. He's great entertainment.