Amazon.com description: Product Description: Life is crazy. Your first memories are poverty, alcoholism, race problems, desegregation, war, Watergate and you’re sick, too. Not just sick either, but the kind of “doctors don’t have a clue” sick. But you soon learn life goes on, with or without you. In this coming of age memoir, Michael A. Page unfolds his story through the written word in a variety of forms and styles. In diary and journal entries, poems, short stories, essays and the occasional words of others he allows the reader to experience “the ride” and offers the message of hope and the possibility of redemption as he documents his struggles of life with his constant companion: anklyosing spondylitis.