The book is a short memoir of the author's sojourn in California as an award winning playwright and theater director in the mid-nineties. It is laced with humor, laughter, and intrigue, usually associated with the persistence of the human spirit to succeed in the face of challenges. The use of personal experiences helps to make the work more poignant and relative. In the end the triumph of the human spirit comes to the fore, and the beauty of life even in struggle is celebrated. The writer is a winner of the Ina Coolbirth Prize for Poetry, The James D. Phelan Award for Playwriting, and The San Francisco Full Circle Award for excellence in playwriting.