This is how it goes.....

  I GET to live today  If you look at my life and you think "wow, look at him go!" I want you to know a few things about how I got here. I have a long history that spanned decades of living that was filled with chaos.  From a childhood in constant chaos that bled well into my adulthood.  The moves as a child, and there were many, to many to count really.  The abuse at the hands of the adults who were supposed to protect me, the mis-guided parenting from a mom who was in survival mode in her own life, and the learning from people who were living their own lives of chaos embedded in me early on that life wasn't supposed to be consistent or comfortable.  I walked into early adulthood with very few skills that would translate into any level of real success. In that early adulthood that included time in the military, a variety of different work experiences, and first marriage that was filled with me putting into action those terrible skills I was taugh...