View from the North 40: A picture-perfect dysfunctional family

My mom and her three sisters are — let’s say “quirky” just in case one of them gets her hands on this column.

All four of the women are different, though I won't elaborate on their characters because I value my life. But all four have one common characteristic: They have spent their entire lives, consciously and subconsciously, in search of themselves, wondering constantly “who am I?”

No one taught them when they were little — and their minds were big — useful cliches like: “wherever you are, that’s where you’re at,” and “you are what you do,” so they cannot believe these messages as adults. A...