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Chapter 01- Early Life and Formation

1 year old – Detroit, MI 1954 Six years-old. Detroit, MI 6th Grade – Captain of the safety patrol. Huntsville, AL Huntsville, Alabama City Championship participant team. I’m sure you won’t be able to pick me out of the photo…. LOL. Me and my youngest brother Bruce 1959-ish My older sister and real young ‘me’. […]

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Chapter 02 – Identity, Perception & Misjudgement

1968 Porsche 912, 5-speed in both winter and summer wheel packages. Cal State Fullerton Sister’s house Orange, CA 1988 School class pictures Huntsville, AL 1965 Palatine, IL- 1974 Undergraduate college Univ of Illinois, Chicago Circle campus 1969 – Huntsville, AL 1973 – Family attended my grandma’s funeral in Detroit, MI Me 8 years old (1961) […]

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Chapter 03 – Brian College & Professional Life

Arabic clothes from Qatar years Me- current times My 2004 Chevy Trailblazer LS China consultant trip Iron Maiden & Metallica outdoor concert at a bullring that Brandon and I went to in Barcelona, Spain (1988). Undergraduate college Advertisement: Sidra Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Doha, Qatar. (2012-2014) Consulting project I worked on in Qatar for 18 […]

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Chapter 05 –  Pressure, Expectations & Proving Yourself

Police Officer Nate (2026) HS Graduation (1972) Uhaul Nate and coworkers (2025) Yanuar and me kickin it. We met when he was working in a restaurant in Doha, Qatar. He and the other workers lived in a labor camp out in the middle of the desert and got bused into Doha to work. then home […]

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Chapter 06 – Questioning What You’re Told

Travis school pictures (above) attending Elton Garrett junior high. 1983 -7th grade (above left) and 1984 – 8th grade (above right). Andy, probably late teens early twenties, visiting my mom’s house in Anaheim, California (left). Many years later, Andy as an adult arranged a free condo for Brandon and me to stay at right at […]

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Chapter 08 – Looking At Things More Than One Way

First Exchange Student – Christian #1 My first exchange student Christian #1 (left) and his younger brother Sebastian at their home in Seeheim, Germany. Christian #1 went to El Modena high school. He was the first of my exchange students all going to Elmo. He also took AP classes and the obligatory German class I […]

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Chapter 09 – Reading People & Situations

Mikey sitting at my office desk at my townhome in the skater kid’s neighborhood. Jason (standing) in the backyard of my townhome. 36 year old me when Mikey, Jason and I were workout buddies. Also around the time we played tackle football, without pads at El Modena high school in Orange, CA. I was sore […]

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Chapter 10 – Family, Chosen Family & Showing Up

Brother Mike, Stephen and Greg (left to right) at their mom’s house in Moreno Valley, CA. Greg (left), Stephen (right) and their mom Elizabeth when the boys were young kids, before I met them as young teenagers. Stephen and Gregory (left to right) as young boys growing up, before I knew them. Stephen and Greg […]

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