In a candid, informal style, writer Tom O Connell traces his work life from his early days in the 1930s and 1940s as an orphan in a Catholic Charities group home upward to top leadership roles in Massachusetts. He recalls challenging careers as CEO, educator, writer, columnist, host of public affairs show It s Your Life on Boston s Channel 25. People known nationally and locally emerge in this book: Entertainer Victor Borge, Gov. John Volpe, Gov. Mike Dukakis, TV Newsman Dick Flavin, Boston Globe Cartoonist Paul Szep, Gov. Frank Sargent, Mayor Kevin White, City Councilor Dapper O Neil. The memoir takes the reader on a roller coaster ride of job searches and major achievements as he moves upward from Granny s house next to the railroad tracks to appointment to the Governor s Highway Safety Committee, CEO of Massachusetts Safety Council, inclusion in Who s Who in the East, and selection in Cape Cod Life s 25th Anniversary Issue as one of the top 100 influential people on Cape Cod. From heights of upward mobility and success, O Connell also reveals periods when he plummeted from those heights into times of downward mobility when faced with divorce, illness, bankruptcy and other challenges. Tom re-creates the Anything is Possible myth of American culture after World War II. W.A. Cole, Book Reviewer It s the lone wolf story of a soul who will not sacrifice his values. Dr. Finbarr Corr, Author, Therapist, Professor