...I eagerly sought out and devoured insights and lessons from an eclectic array of individuals that lived in the neighborhood - businessmen and laborers, winos and alcoholics, drug dealers and users, sport coaches, some of my peers, old-heads at the playground, war vets, school teachers, custodians and other kid’s fathers. So, these are my “surrogate dads & encouragers ” that helped me on my quest to not let the  circumstances that YOU created dictate my destiny.