Born into a minister’s household, Kenneth’s first eighteen years are marked by a limited worldview and numerous life episodes where trial and error are his only skill to see him through. Readers may relate and perhaps even empathize with him as they think back to being raised in the tumultuous decades of the sixties and seventies. Through high school his naivete gets him into conversations and actions where his limited secular knowledge makes him seem like a bumbling fool or at best a lucky country bumpkin.

Before marriage he feels the sting of lost love, an awkward attempt at suicide, and drinking excessively to fit in with older and wiser men on a construction crew. He survives these hurdles to settle down in marriage to his life-long partner, Connie. Together they experience many life challenges in military and civilian life. His two years of military service during the Vietnam Era was rife with humor and lucky outcomes which could have ended in misfortune. But his guardian angel worked extra hard to save him from his own gullible behavior.