Memoirs From the Asylum by Kenneth Weene

He accepts their silly comments without anger. How do we know? He interacts with the other characters. One, Sky, a Hopi Indian, is very much a part of the family. For example, there are two beer deliverymen. Not all the characters who come through the Dew Drop are part of the family. Now I like more artistic answers to such big questions. I gave up on the intellectual, psychologizing answers years ago. Tales From the Dew Drop Inne is my literary response to those questions. But what exactly was the “it” that mattered? So two questions: How do we decide who is in and who is not? How do we define what the process of being a family might be?

Once I married and decided that my home, my family, was the one my wife and I would create, I realized that the most difficult part of having a family was deciding who was part of it and who was not. One of my areas of expertise was family therapy. For whatever the reason I have always been fascinated by the notion of families – their creation, organization, and the fantasies we create about them.Īs an adult, I became a shrink, a clinical psychologist. Maybe it’s because my father was a rage-aholic and my mother was, shall I be kind, peculiar. Maybe it’s because I was out of my home by age fourteen – away at boarding school and summer camp, too. All Things, which has also just published Kens second novel, Memoirs From the Asylum. In 2009 a novel, Widows Walk, was published by All Things That Matter Press. His short stories have appeared in Legendary, Sex and Murder Magazine, The New Flesh Magazine, and The Santa Fe Literary Review. Kens writing started with poetry, and his poetic work has appeared in numerous publications most recently featured in Sol and publication in Spirits, and Vox Poetica.Īn anthology of Kens writings, Songs for my Father, was published by Inkwell Productions in 2002. Married to Roz Weene, artist and jewelry creator, for over forty years, Ken is a strong believer in the joy of love. Over the years he has worked as an educator, pastoral counselor, and psychotherapist. Having gone to Princeton, where he studied economics, Ken went on to train as a psychologist and to become an ordained minister. Although he lived for many years in New York and now resides in Arizona, Ken has never lost his accent nor his love of the northeast. He grew up outside of Boston and spent his summers in Maine. Kenneth Weene is a New Englander by birth and disposition.

Memoirs From the Asylum by Kenneth Weene