Essential Baggage

by Michael Powers

After selling his health and wellness apps to a tech giant, Ridley looks for homes in both cool and warm climates. He hopes to meet a man without toxic baggage, but one disappointing experience after another leaves him skeptical. Fairly quickly he meets a sexy realtor, a Somali personal shopper, a Thai-Latino erotic dancer, and a diminutive community college teacher. All are adorable with a variety of baggage. As Ridley gets to know them, it’s obvious only one has the right kind of baggage.

319 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 19, 2021

About the author

Raised in a small Midwestern farming community, Michael left home at twenty to explore the world. After spending most of the ’70s in the United States Air Force, he earned an MBA and went to work in corporate finance. Twenty years later, his interest in the way people live, love, and work led him to change careers. Today Michael travels extensively as a performance coach for small businesses. He’s lived in eight states and traveled to forty countries in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. His interests include medical technology, international affairs, and global finance. Michael believes the true measure of a person or group can be determined by observing how they act in a crisis.