Category: Kin and Consequenes
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Episode 84 -The Boss Man Cometh…
The Boss Man Cometh: Bully’s Greatest Role Yet… So after I wrote that last post about how people in families use titles to dodge feelings, something else popped into my head. Because if anyone could take a situation as heartbreaking as watching our dad disappear into dementia and turn it into a personal promotion opportunity,…
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Episode 83 – Farming the Family…
Farming the Family: The Real Business at Faurel Hill… Welcome to another episode of Under the Will, Over the Drama, where inheritance is a sport, and the family farm is the prize. Let’s set the scene. Bully, our ever-present, ever-strategic protagonist, pops up at Faurel Hill every day to tend the cattle. Seems wholesome enough…
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Episode 82 – Same House, Different Exits..
Funny how you can grow up under the same roof, eat the same food, breathe the same air, and still end up on entirely different planets. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. How the two oldest in our family turned out so different to the two younger ones. Not that any of us…
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Episode 81- Spare Light-Bulbs …
Episode 81- Spare Light-Bulbs & Spare Bullsh*t… Growing up, my dad always had an account at the local hardware store. Nothing fancy, just a little family-run shop where you could pick up bits and pieces, light-bulbs, batteries, a roll of twine if you needed it. Every month, he’d send me in to pay the bill…
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Episode 78 -The Dementia Deal: Brought to You by Bully & Fanny….
You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your family… and you sure as hell can’t stop them from flogging your house while you’re halfway to the afterlife. Ah, Bully. The man, the myth, the legend in his own lunchbox. You know the type, thinks charisma is the same thing as intimidation, and loyalty…
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Episode 78 – Pedestals, Ghosts, and the Tattler-in-Chief..
Pedestals, Ghosts, and the Tattler-in-Chief: An Ode to Fanny McFox… You know, it’s funny the things you don’t see until you’ve lived long enough to grow your own collection of scars. How did I never see through her? The infamous Fanny McFox, tattler, gatekeeper, ghoster supreme. Back when I was a teenager, I was waging…
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Episode 77 – Do Ya Want the Air Fryer?!
Do Ya Want the Air Fryer?! – The Day The Grief Parade Rolled In.. When people say grief brings out the best and worst in families, I now know what they mean. Mostly the worst. Dad hadn’t even been gone 24 hours when Bully Yates, always quick off the mark, installed a brand new, locked…
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