A Road Once Traveled

About the Book

A hard but intimate look into the life a one man and his travels across an epoch of experience, place and time. It speaks to the universal experience of wanting to discover an inner-self. In a deeply personal introspection, he concludes that life forms around a heritage having outlooks, strengths and weaknesses that antedate birth. Once born we immediately begin to modify the heritage passed down creating lifelong attitudes through which we assess right, wrong, the good and the bad. We come to learn about what makes us happy, sad, frightened and motivated and this too has a lasting affect on the inner-self. We become aware of how we fit into the scheme of things by answering questions, answers, which come quickly in some instances and others that escape us until late in life; and some come with great pain, while others come with great sacrifice. And, lastly other answers never come lost in a self-imposed blindness or in a world of incomprehensible complexity and absurdity.

About the Author

Joe Carvalko, is a writer with varied experience as a lawyer, musician, engineer, and teacher. He has published numerous technical and legal articles on a variety of subjects such as artificial intelligence, fuel filtration, and the ontology of intellectual property. He also recently published A Deadly Fog, a series of poems, vignettes and essays about the harshness of war. He is currently completing a novel about a trial that tries to solve a mystery of a missing infantryman during the Korean War. Joe has traveled throughout the world, which often provides him subjects about which he writes.