Adventures with My Father: Childhood Recollections of Divorce, Dysfunction and the Summer of Love

"Ladies and Gentlemen...This is Your Captain Drinking..."

When A.L. "Skip" Mahaffey's mom would send him off to visit his father, she'd slip a piece of paper in his hand and tell him, "If he tries to kidnap you, give this to a stranger."

Such was the dysfunctional existence growing up with one of the strangest, most bizarre people Mahaffey ever encountered-his dad. Adventures with My Father is a greatest-hits collection of incidents like those, leavened with the kind of humor only Mahaffey ...