A poet's arduous journey of love and lament, verse by verse.

Please read this book's content, and discover life at its best and its worst.

There are many defining moments in life. The moment which defines my life is when I rang the bell at Penn Medicine, in Philadelphia, which put an exclamation point to the last of my 30 radiation treatments for cancer of the larynx. Because of my wife, our four children, seven grandchildren and dear friends, I have survived the darkest days in my life. I can never thank them enough. On the field called life, it's not about watching from the side lines, it's about participating in daily living and giving your heart and soul to making yourself wiser and healthier, and to helping those near and dear to you reach their goals. This book is dedicated to all those brave souls, who fight the good fight and never give up when unforeseen disease strikes them down.