In this memoir, Marriah Star, Ph.D., describes how he made the transition from his hippie community to the academic elite, graduating from Harvard University and earning a Ph.D. He reveals the ups and downs of moving between two homes, going from home schooling to formal education, rising up the ranks of the boy scouts and his high school newspaper staff while his friends joined drug-dealing gangs. Then, suddenly, it all ended and Dr. Marriah Star invented his academic personality and the academic career that took him to Harvard. This memoir also contains the life stories of Dr. Marriah Star's family, including parents, sisters, aunts, uncles, and grandparents.