JJ Botta is a freelance writer and university professor who has traveled the world, teaching in a number of countries on three continents and experiencing many adventures along the way. His resume contains numerous magazine and online publications on a variety of topics. He is the author of fifteen books in the fields of Writing and the Humanities. This book is a series of essays on varied topics and opinions, written from an American author's perspective, including humorous, deep, philosophical, political, and personal observations. The reader is encouraged to read this work as a memoir on the experiences of an ordinary man and a portal to the thought processes of a modern citizen of the planet.