One Lucky Bastard: a Memoir: A Memoir

After being separated for thirty-seven years, I was reunited with my biological mother on Mother's Day, 1995. At that very moment, I knew I had to pen such a life-changing miracle and so decided on a memoir. In reality, the project proved to be much more of a challenge than I had ever anticipated. Then I remembered reading a quote that put my writing challenges in perspective. "You own everything that happens to you, tell your stories, if people wanted you to write warmly about them, they s...