If you were to email Steve and say, ‘I’m coming by to meet you and talk about simple pleasures and complex ponderings and everything in-between,’ he’d email you back, telling you to hurry, there’s a cold one waiting for you with plenty of stories still to be told. … Steve is a talented writer. He writes raw and real. Polished and gritty, unfiltered and nuanced, with phrases that settle on you like a dandelion spore as well as ones that splash down on you like a five-gallon bucket of water on a cooker of a summer day.

Each chapter, so intimate and transparent, pleads for the next, with unwavering hope of what’s to come. He is an inspiration to others to go ahead and take the first steps on their own journey, whether it be on the other side of the world or out their front door.

It is rare to find such an honest book. This book touches upon something that I think is an eternal truth – the complex relationship between a father and a son. Steve has created a narrative that forces the reader to think about our most important relationships while examining and reexamining how we pursue happiness and meaning in life…