David Osinga:  

Life... People can change, thank goodness! I was wilder than I or anybody who cared about me could live with, N headed south until I got clean at 23. I haven't used in the 25 years since. Some of my crew didn't pull out of that dive! My Dad, bless his heart, was my biggest inspiration to live differently than he did. After High School I went to Shelbyville Vo Tech, graduated N worked briefly as a draftsman. Jobs were scarce during the recession of the mid 80's so I took the work I could find. I started working at Koala Center located in the old King Hospital waiting for a "real job" then took a job offer from Cumberland Heights in Nashville at a start up Adolescent Program in '85. A couple promotions later, N I was making as much as a Draftsman, so it became a career. I worked a 2nd job at Nashville Sailing Center on Percy Priest for a few years sailing. Was an avid hiker in my 20's, had a brush with hypothermia on a 70 Mi. solo hike in the Smokes in '87, then almost died of hypothermic shock on another solo hike during a hike AZ (some people never learn) in '90 . I turned on 2 the Art's N started sculpting in my late 20's. I married a girl (5 years my senior) from Tullahoma I met in Nashville in 1990. I got a job offer to work at a Hospital with a national reputation N a few more thousand bucks in Tucson, N we moved 2 Tucson AZ in '91. I had cancer in '92, surgery, bit the thermonuclear bullet, N have been in full remission since. We didn't have the children I wanted in my 1st marriage so I did the next best thing, found a family that adopted me. I held my God Son Bryce when he was 2 Hrs old, he was born on my birthday. I watched his sister Rachael grow into the sweetest adolescent. I hung out with them every week for a kid fix till our lives diverged. We got snared remodeling a "charming old AZ bungalow" gone money-pit. My wife had some devestating chronic medical problems, we persevered thru thick N thin for 15 years till the difference in our values divided us. We tossed everything we'd worked for, including a couple houses we had, to cover her medical debt N avert bankruptcy. We ended our marriage like friends in 06. I remarried a fantastic girl with alot of life left in her, N spent 2 weeks driving through Spain N Portugal for our honeymoon. I...Expand for more