I am a high school dropout-expelled weeks before graduation. Married at 18 - it lasted 58 years. There are 4 children, 7 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren. I worked from age 13 - truck farms, grocery stores, roadside produce markets, super market produce manager, security guard, computer operator, construction laborer, union carpenter, and state licensed contractor. I enquired about a GED test about 62 years after not graduating. Nope. No paper test - computer only. I am computer illiterate. Michael is a retired carpenter with a varied working background - operated and programmed the old main frame computers, managed a 24/7 service station, managed a dairy farm, owned and operated a furniture building company, and even picked potatoes with Mexican migrant farm workers. He has been married for over 50 years, had 5 children with only 3 still living, and has countless grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In my younger days I worked as a farm laborer, house painter, janitor, and carpenter's helper. I fell in love with theater and worked for many years as an actor and director. That love competed with another: foreign languages and international travel. With many stops and starts I eventually completed my Ph.D. and became a college professor. Though teaching was my true calling, I also published scholarly books and essays, as well as literary translations. In my spare time I wrote short stories, some of which appear in Stories by Three Brothers. Now retired, I'm working on my first novel. I've been married for 30+ years and that union produced my pride and joy, a son, whose brilliance keeps the darkness at bay.