Print-on-demand books don’t do well with photos – at least not when I produced this book. So I created the website to allow lots of photos and any other enhancements I might think of.

Here’s an excerpt from the book, Doug telling what you can expect if you read it:

Right now I’d rather be drinking.  Right now as I write.  Right now as you read.  If I had money to buy and transportation to the liquor store, I wouldn’t be sitting here typing my life story.  

But I don’t have money.  And my car stopped running a few months ago.  

This isn’t a “lived happily ever after” story.  I’m not a recovering alcoholic.  I’m not an Alcoholics Anonymous success story – hell, I think AA is a joke.  I’m not risen from an evil addiction to a normal life.  I’m a drunk.  

I’ve lost everything important to me – a big home with swimming pool in the fashionable Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield.  I’ve lost my town car.  My Armani suits and designer ties.  My camera, golf clubs, giant television.  My career as an up and coming sales manager at AT&T.  

Worse, I’ve lost my wife, Karen.  And my step-daughter, Danielle, whom I loved as if she were my own.  I recently tried to reconnect with Danielle and she responded with an angry letter, angry with me for staggering out of her life at a time when she needed me most.  Hard to blame her.   I’m told she’s married now, and engaged in a successful sales career.  I still have her picture on the table in my living room and sometimes dream I’ll see her again.

But it’ll never happen.  

I have lots of memories and regrets but no hopes, no dreams.  I’ll never recover any of what I’ve lost.  I’m just living out the rest of my life trying to get enough to drink to numb the pain.  

This should be an uplifting book…