A Life So Good

About the Book

This is my life story, inspired by my grandchildren’s need to have the complete story for themselves and future generations. It is a story of growing up in a small coal-mining town into young adulthood, where alcohol started to become a part of my life, then of my journeys around the world and throughout Australia. A story of relationships and children being caught up in the exciting highs and devastating lows brought on by the effects of alcohol and drug addiction to finally emerging into an insanity that, through suicidal thoughts, led to an enlightenment few get to experience. It is a story where one can see in hindsight that this journey has always had the support of a power greater than myself.

About the Author

Ronald Russell lives quietly in a granny flat under his daughter’s house in the heritage city of Maryborough Queensland Australia. He is a retired engineer and natural therapist practicing both Eastern and Western traditions. This memoir is his story of a journey up to and through a twenty-five-year addiction to alcohol and drugs to an enlightenment few get to experience. This story was first intended for his children and grandchildren and is his first attempt at writing.