The stories compiled in this book are all true and from my life, but they are not a biography. They are snapshots of a night here, a week there, or a summer escape; chosen for the specific purpose of presenting how a teenager making wrong life-choices every time he faces one, will have fewer and fewer good options available by age 17. By that age I was locked in a downward spiral of my own making. All subsequent bad turns at the proverbial fork in the road would bring my friends and I closer to death at an accelerating rate until there were only a few left standing. The next 5 years would prove that out. I was one of the few still standing. Some one loved me enough to reach in and pull me out of this street gang, His name is Jesus Christ. His story in my life becomes as bizarre as my previous stories. The adventure continues to this day. I chose stories that present challenges everyone will be able to identify with, and answers to some of lifes hard questions. Don't lock in pre-conceptions from this short description. The stories will take you places you didn't expect to go.

Rich Bonnett is married to Lora (Marinelli) Bonnett for over 40 years, has 3 children and 7 grandchildren. He is a serving member of High Point Baptist Chapel where he and Lora taught youth Sunday school for 20 years. He now teaches a home Bible Study group. His other interest include traveling, backpacking, canoeing, photography, herpetology and ornithology which he incorporates into educational programs he presents through-out southeast PA to a wide variety of venues. When not spending time with his family, he serves as board member to the Mengel Natural History Society; is team leader under PA Fish & Boat Commission for the Timber Rattler Assessment Project since 2003, and is a field volunteer monitor for several other wildlife projects. Though retired since 2019 from a career as calibration technician for industrial weighing, he still works part time on field projects for an Environmental Company during nice weather. He still gets together with several of the folks mentioned in these stories.