Life On A Shoestring

About the Book

What am I going to do in life? What am I supposed to do? How can I decide what to do when everything looks like a sham? What is this American Dream? Are we not all living our lives on a shoestring? By the time I completed this book I realized the nature of my problem. I rearranged my work to look like an eighteen-hole golf course, and I saw the light. I realized that I was a guitar player living in a golfer's world. We don't understand our leaders because they are golfers, and they are living on a golf course. They don't understand us because we are living on a shoestring. I realized that I was just shooting a bad round. I reformatted my work into a language that the golfer's can understand. I looked at my journey through the American Dream for the last forty years like I was playing a round of golf.

As I play the course, I try to stay right in the middle of the fairway, neither hook nor a slice. I try to stay out of the sand traps and avoid the water. Unfortunately, I've had to spend some time in the woods looking for my ball. I hope this book will teach you the attitude that overcomes adversity and an attitude of hope and of humor, because we'll need it. And I hope that I find my ball. See you at the nineteenth hole!

About the Author

I am an American citizen, a child of the sixties. I grew up living under the illusion of the American Dream as it was being pulled in two by the generation gap. I struggled through my teenage years, nearly dying of a drug overdose. I wandered homelessly on and off for two or three years, searching for my calling and my soul. I finally joined the United States Marine Corps in at age twenty-three.

After twelve years in the Marines, the loss of my first wife, and a disabling injury, I left the Marines and went to college. I left college to become a writer and musician and moved to Austin, Texas in 1996.