Gary Gresham:  

In high school I was a troublemaker... beyond a shadow of a doubt. I was rebellious as a teenager, and a runaway. I left home at 15. I got into a lot of fights through out high school, and ended in juvenile jail for a short season. I was put on probation until I was 18. Ken Farren's partents took me in and became my legal guardians untoil I was 18. Thank God for Ken and his parents. I was not allowed to graduate my senior year due to a forklift accident at a carpet warehouse where I worked. My leg got caught in between the chains on the forklift and snapped my leg- I had a severe compound fracture to my right lower leg... the leg broke in half at the shin. Because of that I missed a lot of the forth quarter my senior year being in the hospital and then confined to bedrest. Because I missed so much school I was given incompletes on my report card and I had to go to summer school to finish my HS diploma, all with a full-length cast on my leg, and living away from home. I got my first apartment at that time, so I could be close to the school where they held summer school. Since I was twelve I have written over thirty books. I wrote two books / journals when I decided to hitchhike 15,000 miles around the U.S. with a backpack in my 20's. What an incredible adventure that was. The excitement of traveling by thumb outweighed the perils of hitchhiking. Even though I am now 55 y.o. I would still like to go another 5000 miles hitchhiking again, to break 20,000 miles across the US. If I could, I swear I would do it. My wife told me if I do it to just make sure the rent is paid first. She knows I am nuts. I was fortunate enough to get some of my poetry published in a book with Henry Taylor who won the Pulitzer for poetry years ago. I use to be a member of the Poetry Soci...Expand for more