Meet Mike

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Born on September 1st. 1962, Mike's Childhood wasn't one that could be classified as living the American Dream. He, along with his other 7 siblings, were born into poverty living in the projects of New York City's Westside Manhattan. What so many other children in the 1960's working middle class America had. Michael never experienced the love and security that a stable family life provides. At the age of five, due to his parent's indigence, he was removed from his parents' custody and place in an Orphanage Home on Staten Island. This shattered all hope Mike had for any resemblance of a normal family life and childhood. While in the orphanage home, mike was then placed in foster care with his youngest brother just three years old, only to become a victim of "Child Abuse" at the hands of his foster father from age seven until he turned 15. Instead of telling his assigned social worker at the time the violent beatings he sustained his years living there, Mike requested to be removed from foster care and placed in a group home instead. That respite didn't last long. After just eight months living in one inside the Bronx, Mike returned back into the foster home. This occurrence precipitated the actions that would alter Mike's future once again. By age sixteen, Mike's oldest sister agreed to let him live with her back in Manhattan only to have left just 3 months later. Facing another crossroad in his troubled youth, Mike dropped out of high school at 17. He began studying for his G.E.D. while working double shifts as a full-time dishwasher in order to survive.  Michael braced for the worst, and it had found him. He ended up homeless living out of a grey beat up suitcase jumping from one menial job after the next just to survive for the life he was never prepared for. Many adolescents have reached a point like this in their lives and are faced with choices. The choices that Mike made at this juncture in his life are what makes his story so Miraculous as well as Inspirational.

Future Stories beginning with how a a Homeless Teen became a Police Officer only to end up being part of a National Tragedy  in epic proportion affecting our country's national security. and way of life as we knew it.

On September 11th, 2001, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners crashing one into the Pentagon Building in Washington D.C. 2 into both North and South Towers of The World Trade Center in NYC. The 4th plane crashed into an open field in Shanksville PA, killing all on board.

Total death that day was 2,996. 

82  Police Officers 

37 Police Officers from the Port Authority Police department. The most  police officers lost in a single day in the History of Law Enforcement going back to 1838.

23 Police Officers from N.Y.P.D.

 11  agents and officers from other city  law enforcement agencies. 

343 F.D.N.Y firefighters. 

  2,753  civilians including 

415 Port Authority of New York and New Jersey civilian employees.

 I am looking to enter back into the Public Speaking  World regardless how much my ADHD tries to talk me out of it. Back in December of 2024, I was medically diagnosed with A.D.H.D.  Devastated at first, I learn to manage it. But not before  I played back every endless childhood and adult memories filled with Trauma and  Humiliation, which is common for those diagnosed very late in life to do. Think of it as a mini series with endless episodes playing inside your head every waking moment until it subsides on it's own. Truly Mentally exhausting. After law enforcement, my life has been pretty hectic unpredictable and down right challenging at times. I find myself separated once again after a 43 year marriage. This time It's different.

 I feel it.