For years I have written prolifically, but you will not have heard my name nor read my work. The writing I did was in the context of my professions as a priest, staff psychologist and school psychologist. Much of what I did was confidential, particularly what I wrote in the hospital and school settings. In those thousands of reports, I named names and summarized relevant personal histories including pertinent medical and psychiatric factors. The audience who would read my work was tightly defined by professional and legal codes. I was good at what I did; I liked my role in re-framing the struggles and needs of each patient or student I evaluated in order to develop treatment and educational plans. But I had a life too; did I dare write about that? I did dare, only to discover I had much to learn about the genre referred to as Life Writing and about the complexities of one single life when its Back-story is taken into account.