During the first fifteen years of my life I lived in two countries and four states, attended nine different schools, spent a season on a traveling carnival and was sentenced to Montana's reform school until the age of eighteen. Before my twenty-sixth birthday I spent several months traveling around the West on freight trains and living "under the bridge," and was sentenced to state prisons three times, in two different states.
Then I turned my life around. After trying several lines of work I settled into a twenty-six year career as a regional and long-haul truck driver. This career was terminated by a disabling accident, after which I enrolled in college and graduated with a bachelor's degree. After two years of working as a teacher I returned to college for my master's degree. Read the details in my book, "Until You Get it The Seventy Year Odyssey of a Square Peg.