This project is part of a larger vision I have of documenting my childhood and early adulthood for the sake of providing a history for my children.  When we think of memoirs and diaries, we tend to think of aged books with faded ink revealing the details of a past.  In this digital age, I want to explore other means of personal documentation using technologies that will be familiar to the next generation.  

For this particular segment of my personal histories, I had planned to use the hypertext program StorySpace.  As McLuhan says, the medium is the message.  In this case, I had wanted it to be temporally complementary.  However, being of a frugal mind, I found StorySpace to be a little out of my budget.  I went in search of a replacement and found VoodooPad.  It's cheaper, works on the same principles, and will work with today's technologies.

From 1984 to 1988, I lived in the coastal town of Astoria Oregon.  During that period, I changed residences at least seven times due to different situations and circumstances.    It was a period where I was on my own for the first time in my life and this biographical narrative attempts to reveal what took place during that time of discovery, both successes and failures.  

To begin,