Living Your Dreams
When Adam Shepard contacted me about his book, I was cautious. After all, here he was contacting me out of the blue. We had no connections - that I know of then, anyway. So, I did what any cautious writer would do, I researched him. What a surprise! I learned that Adam is a young man, who has taken life seriously enough to live his dreams without apology, risking comfort, the familiar and security to learn about the world around him as well as to discover who he is. I, also, learned that we did have some common ground. Adam Shepard attended Merrimac College in Andover, Massachusetts, graduating with a degree in Business Management and Spanish. (OK, I can claim this as a slight connection - I have relatives that attended Merrimac and I was on campus, once.) He was also a basketball player, which I must confess is the one sport I enjoyed in my high school/college days. (Another connection!) Shortly after graduation, he set off with literally $25 ...