There are one hundred reasons to buy this book, but one will have you reading it again and again. The stories mean something new to you, every time you read them. When putting this project together, I wanted it to read different and to be understood differently. I wanted readers to laugh at themselves, cry at their pain, and get over those obstacles that cause us all not to see clearly, what this world and our being here is all about. I have given several clues as to what I believe. Maybe now you can add to them or destroy some of the myths that surround so many of the simple things in our lives. I am a citizen, son, a brother, a cousin, a co-worker, an employer, and a consumer. In short, I am one of you, no matter who you are. So read your own voice and open your own doors with this book. The true and just knowledge of self and surroundings. Michael-