Alcohol is Dangerous
Theresa in 2001 Alcohol is a very powerful substance. I can write about it because of how it affected me during my time as a child and early adult. Even my late wife Theresa was affected by this awful malady: Her family was full of them. I remember years ago, back in 1985, waiting for my father to drive in from a town an hour away and he never arrived. A snow storm hit Winnipeg back then, and I waited in vain on the street hoping to catch a sign of his brown truck rolling by. I waited for hours, until my mother called him up, only to find out he had passed out drunk, and forgot to drive in to pick my brother and I up for the weekend visit. It was a disappointing memory. There was many times I was at my grandma's house in Portage la Prairie, and found that he was either drinking or on the verge of passing out. The power of alcohol consumed my entire family. Party weekend drinking can slowly turn into daily drinks. Once you cross that road it's really tough to turn your...
