"Did you ever feel guilt, inadequate, or defensive about your life or your family? Did you ever feel helpless to explain or justify your actions? Were there holes in your life that never seemed to get filled or patched-over?Tom Tripp takes the reader back into the dark corners of his family's dysfunction, searching for its roots and manifestations. He also attempts to self-analyze the effects his family problems had on him growing up and beyond. Along the way, he offers a nostalgic look back at our typical blue-collar city neighborhoods of the 1950's and 60's, with particular focus on Buffalo, N.Y.Mr. Tripp provides hope and promise for overcoming the ravages of alcoholism and mental illness in families, in what he describes as an enlightening intervention from God. He is a man whose spiritual base is ever-expanding.He offers up this account of overcoming adverse baggage not only as a legacy for his children, and a loving testament to his wife, but also to provide hope for those that may have stumbled down similar paths."
