posted 12-28-2009 10:24 AM               

"The First Years" is an account of my childhood from my earliest memories, while growing up in Venezuela and Costa Rica, through my adolescence and up until the very day that I left Costa Rica to follow my dream in the United States. It is the first book in a trilogy that I plan to complete relating the phases of my life, including many adventures, happy times, failures, successes and losses. In this first book, I have tried to explore the forces that shaped my imagination and formed my identity through the earliest portions of my life. I believe a large measure of my good fortune was due to the help that I received from many others during these formative years. So I hope that this book can, in some way, help others who are now looking for their path toward their dreams.