Odd Man Out

<P>This book is a journal spanning three decades 1964-1998 and more. It is also a series of essays written during that period. Essentially it traces one individual's development as a person.<P>This book did not come about in the manner of most books: as the product of a long-range plan. Rather as is sometimes the case with a child it just happened. It was born of a compulsion to write.<P>As I am neither gregarious nor extroverted this journal served as a repository for my innermost feelings during those long years. Somewhere along the way I developed the notion that perhaps others might want to see what I had written: I felt much of it was important. I believe this book speaks to everyone regardless of who they are.