Facing a Lifetime of Challenges

After an active childhood of vivid and humorous adventures at age fifteen James (JB) was forced to face a significant crossroads when at the hasty request of his father he had to leave home in Newton Kansas rather than to continue the schooling he so coveted. His father who learned only in the school of hard knocks did not consider a formal education necessary. </p><p>Read of daunting challenges beginning on the streets of Wichita Kansas his elopement with his first love Maxine at the age of eighteen his struggles to provide for a growing family Maxine's death at the age of twenty-seven his dilemma of raising six children alone and having to start his own business on a shoestring his second marriage and continuing unreal adventures with wife Questa.</p> <p>His pursuit of a successful life culminated in a right relationship with God financial stability and satisfaction in his old age.</p>