This is a true story of my life. I have died and lived to tell about it. I share my experiences, strength and hope with you in this book in hopes that one can use the information to help them through whatever battles they made need to overcome. The book includes short stories of things that have happened to me while growing up and gaining strength to do the things I needed to do when I needed to do them with the help of Jesus Christ. It includes, how things were back in the 1930's until this present day in my life and how the writing of the book came about. Some of these experiences will make you laugh and some will make you cry and some may have you laughing until you cry. I hope you enjoy it and my hopes are that someone will learn from my experiences. I was born in 1939 as a baptist, sharecroppers son. I was a bashful little boy that grew up with lots of new experiences. I married my high school sweetheart, moved to Nashville, joined the service, tried my hand at real estate, worked at a chemical plant, took on a battle with Addison's disease, cancer, diabetes, heart failure, burns on my body, all while helping my wife raise two amazing beautiful little girls.