In May, he'll fill newsstands with a piece he wrote about hisonly child, Maggie, for Rolling Stone magazine and one on teaching for theReader's Digest. But no question, he's gratified by the appreciation andthe money. With that beginning, here are some other responses from America's favoritememoirist. While you're waiting, you haveto be able to make fun of the people who have control over you. Your father was an alcoholic who deserted the family.
Alcoholism is adisease.
He had his demons. In some ways she was just an ordinary womanwho wanted a household to take care of, which was evident in her lateryears, the way she kept everything so clean. Meeting my father was theworst thing that ever happened to her. But you canexplain the Irish addiction to alcohol by the fact that they had nothingelse. I think the drinking also had something to do with the inhibitionsof Catholicism.