Paul was part of a large family growing up. He earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Washington in Seattle, which he put on hold for two years while serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Germany.After returning home, he met a beautiful young woman driving a bright yellow VW. She agreed to spend life with him. Susan and Paul are blessed with six children and a fourteenth grandchild is on the way.Paul served seven years in the US Army working in Military Intelligence. He earned an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, the internationally recognized business school in Phoenix, Arizona.He spent most of his business career engaged in commercial real estate investments working for various firms such as private equity, a pension fund, and an international bank. A core principle in his private writing is the role faith plays in dealing with challenges and that this life is a preparatory state for an eternal one. Different parties have guided him through periods of discouragement. He writes to assist others through theirs. Friends have encouraged him to publish to a larger audience. Mark and Me is his first effort with others to follow.

Table of Content - SELECTED SAMPLES

1. THE BEGINNING

The Call

Mark's Family

Why This Book?

2. THE FIRST YEARS ~ STORIES AND EVENTS

Heart-Rending Phone Calls

Mark's Open-Heart Surgery

3. THE FIRST YEARS ~ LESSONS AND OBSERVATIONS

The Power of Vision and Hope

Mini-Abraham Experience

4. THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YEARS ~ STORIES AND EVENTS

The Escape Artist

"Mark Out. Mark Out."

Saturday Morning Doorbell

The Golf Course

"Bishop, Go Fishing"

5. THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YEARS ~ LESSONS AND OBSERVATIONS

Mark Starts School-How to Change a Community

Our Mission Statement for Mark

Mark's Baptism-How the Chapel Filled

6. THE TEENAGE YEARS ~ STORIES AND EVENTS

Innocence Can Be a Painful Teacher - The Police at the Door

7. THE TEENAGE YEARS ~ LESSONS AND OBSERVATIONS

Persistence - Part One

Not Limited by Fear of Failure

The Gift of Time to Repent

The Snow Cave - An Outpouring of God's Love

9. A YOUNG ADULT: PART ONE ~ LESSONS AND OBSERVATIONS

Discouraged, Mad, or Sad? - No "Agony of Defeat"

Special Needs Baseball

Finding Joy in Our Circumstances - What's My

Disney Junior?

11. A YOUNG ADULT: PART TWO ~ LESSONS AND OBSERVATIONS

Lessons on the Atonement from the Emergency

Room with Mark

"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall"

Mark's Concept of Favorite-Evidently There Can

Be More Than One

12. A YOUNG ADULT: PART THREE ~ STORIES AND EVENTS

Mark and the Unaccounted Cash - Busted by a

McDonald's Breakfast

Persistence - Part Two: Attending John's Funeral

Mark as Santa Claus

13. A YOUNG ADULT: PART THREE ~ LESSONS AND OBSERVATIONS

Illness, Death, and Prayer - "Dad, You Lay Down

by Me Few Minutes?"

Spiritual Types in My Relationship with Mark

Advocacy

Dependency

Boundaries

Humble Requests

The Relationship between Sacrifice and Service

Mark's Gift of Love - There Is Nothing Greater

Mark the Contradiction

14. QUESTIONS WE ARE ASKED ABOUT MARK

"Is Mark High Functioning?"

"Is Life with Mark Hard?" - It Depends on What

Life You are Preparing For

"Is Mark Disabled or Handicapped?" - Aren't We All?

15. A FINAL WORD