About the Author

Tom spent the first half living the conditioned life. A little brother; a newpaper boy; an altar boy with good grades; soccer team and Spanish club; liberal arts, beer drinking, oat sewing, high school spanish teacher, MBA, failed start-ups, the decade with the billionaires; love, children, the Pacific Northwest. In January of 2019 everything changed. Events forced Tom to sort out the truth of his childhood. He had the chance to finally talk through a murder he had witnessed as a pre-teen—so starting to deal with several other profoundly traumatic events; and finally accepting and dealing with the addiction issues that were woven into his conditioning. These days Tom lives peacefully on an island in the Pacific Northwest and he writes every day.

Quito 2003