Growing up on welfare, food stamps, and Greyhound buses, Holly Thompson Rehder quit school at fifteen to help take care of her mother and younger sister after a devastating car accident.
As a 25-year-old sales engineer, I am on the road a lot visiting new places and meeting new people, all while trying to maintain my friendships I currently have.
This little book is a series of personal vignettes by award-winning author/journalist Skip Johnson that are just plain down fun to read, like how his fiancee introduced him to her best friend, whom a year later he married, or how he joined a venerable local charity's board and two months later found himself president and only member of the board, a board that was $50,000 in debt, with no idea how to pay it, and it was up to him and him alone to fix things, or how he very accidentally single-handedly captured an armed and dangerous bank robber, or how some very bad decisions early in his life led him into a thirty-year career as a newspaper reporter, columnist and editor.
