From childhood on, most of us have stories to tell about our lives, and those stories tell far more than a chronological record. Facts, themselves, are only the sets for the many acts in one life. Essays, poems, truth told through fiction, drawings or sketches, and photographs individually and collectively communicate a personality. In my case, all of these means of communication describe who I am (an ordinary person) and how I have grown to 80. -Mason Hayek