Memoirs of a Golf Widow is a story of her life. As a young girl she was very cute, smart, a tomboy and curious about the world around her. She had a scientific outlook on life and was anxious to discover the truth. She was forever coming up with theories about how to solve problems. Her first interest was to understand why so many people in her immediate circle suffered from mental illnesses. Her Aunt Ruth in particular was constantly being hospitalized, given shock treatments, and medicated. Sue’s theory was that if Aunt Ruth could get free of her mother, mother-in-law and husband all of whom were very controlling and was let to resume the operation of the Dance School she had founded as a young woman that she would be fine. In 1985 after being on a contraindicated drug by a young doctor in Dream Lake she found herself in a mental hospital which to her seemed like a perfect place to test her theory about her Aunt Ruth. She befriended a number of patients and noted that each of them seemed fine until a parent or spouse visited. They were all under the control of a person who should have been in a fiduciary relationship with them but who were overstepping their boundaries making these otherwise docile people crazy. Her childhood theories about Aunt Ruth’s illness were validated.