Life on the Shady Side of the Tree: An Autobiography of a Recovering Alcoholic

The life story of one who became addicted to alcohol at an early age of 14 years and what it was like growing up in the Depression and war years. Follow the author's life in the Navy during the Korean conflicts and on into married life and raising a family. From the Author

Born in the year 1930 I have lived in the same town all my life. The town of Goleta, California had a population of 450 back then and now is a new city of 28,000. Excerpts

from Chapter 5

I told him I wouldn't be home that night as I was going to Santa Barbara for my Naval Reserve meeting. I said goodbye, closed the car door and never saw him alive again.

from the Preface

Also to anyone else who reads this that thinks they may have a problem with Alcohol just maybe following through my story in the book, you may get a general idea how it become a very cunning, ba