No Matter What: The Early Years (Volume One)

NO MATTER WHAT David A Goodwin Normal MTomolonis 2 2 2003-04-14T20:57:00Z 2003-04-14T20:57:00Z 2 664 3789 31 7 4653 9.2720 NOMATTER WHAT, VOLUMES ONE AND TWO, tells the life story of Dr. DavidGoodwin from his birth to his retirement from the mental health profession atage sixty three.

Goodwins tellsof his difficulty in dealing with his childhood education and his dislike ofacademia in general.

However, he managed to overcome his early educationaldifficulties eventually earning a bachelors degree, two masters degrees and adoctorate degree.

Goodwin says hewas born with horse manure in his blood and that he wanted to be a rancher andcowboy for as long as he could remember.

He spent much of his young life onfarms and wanting to spend the rest of his life in the in the saddle.

Goodwin saysthat when he was a kid in high school he was privileged to spend several yearsworking nights as a houseparent at a school for the deaf and blind.

He writesabout that experience and says it taught him to be responsible and to haveempathy for others.

Goodwinswritten work shares his early efforts to gain a military career and how themilitary shaped