Dwight E. Knuth

Broschiertes Buch

This Dummy Pulls His Own Strings

Beschreibung

As the title suggests, Dwight is a bit of a non-conformist or as his wife called him, "A Rebel Without A Clue". He never got in any serious trouble but he liked to skate around the edge of it and occasionally his skates slipped and he fell into it. Dwight Knuth has always marched to his own drum while following a path through life lined with accomplishments, failures, joys, sorrows, and struggles. In sharing his fascinating true story that also reveals the history of his ancestors, Dwight hopes to encourage others to embrace their uniqueness and pursue happiness. Dwight begins with his misspent youth where he proclaims he was a rebel without a clue. While providing a glimpse of what it was like to live on the North Dakota prairie during the fifties, Dwight details youthful adventures that include hitchhiking across the United States at age sixteen, being jailed twice during the trip, and then riding on a freight train to return home. As his journey led him to become a Golden Glove boxer, serve in the military during the Berlin Crisis, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam War, Dwight discloses how he faced and overcame many challenges that would later include his wife's battle with terminal breast cancer. Through it all, Dwight teaches through example that perseverance and faith are keys to surviving and even thriving amid life's greatest difficulties. This Dummy Pulls His Own Strings shares one man's experiences as he learned to navigate through life and embrace every good, bad, and ugly moment in his own distinctive way.

Autor

Dwight is an author that writes about life and the emotions experienced. His telling of his life story is not always a happy story but he tries to sprinkle even the sad moments with a little humor or irony and he is not above sarcasm.

As the title suggests, he is a bit of a non-conformist or as his wife called him, "A Rebel Without A Clue". As a child when his Mother was at her wits end with him she would say, "I hope you live long enough to have children and that they turn out exactly like you". She also told him not to ever worry about being kidnapped because they would bring him back in a short time. Even his Dr. at the Mayo Clinic told him he would live long enough to make everyone he loved miserable.

He never got in any serious trouble but he liked to skate around the edge of it and occasionally his skates slipped and he fell into it.

He was a golden glove boxer in high school without much success. His strategy as a boxer was to bleed all over his opponent. At the age of 16, his friend and he hitchhiked half way across the US and on the return trip hopped a freight train and learned how to be a successful bum. At the age of 17 he joined the ND Army National Guard and continued his boxing career. In the Army he gave up the strategy of bleeding on his boxing opponent and won the NDANG championship. The local constable was so fond of him, rather than jail him he tried to render him unconscious with his Billy club.

After high school he joined the Navy, pursued a career as a computer programmer, married, worked for a major US Corp. as a computer programmer, system analyst and Mgr. of IT. He retired at 58, beat cancer, cared for his wife as she died of cancer and lives alone in the icebox of the nation, International Falls, MN

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LifeRich Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 898g
• ISBN-13: 9781489709899
• ISBN-10: 1489709894
• Artikelnr.: 47126930