abusive mother, absent father, poverty (no phone, car, refrigerator, tub or shower), molestation, 120-year old tenement house with cockroaches, rats, snow came in from a crack in the wall.

Used my life story to win a scholarship and am a Sophomore at 69.!! Cannot do a thing about the past; simply keep moving forward...Joined the army right out of high school; from a little town in Maine, to San Francisco at the height of the Vietnam War....Dancer, singer, author, poet, etc.

Some of the (14 endorsements for my life story, so humbling): Elie Wiesel, Wayne Dyer, Nikki Giovanni, Alice Miller, Larry Dossey