Keaton S. Ziem

I was raised in a cabin in one of the largest Ponderosa Pine forests in the continental United States. I had nothing to do with the amount of trees that grew there.

I am an only child with two brothers; I was raised with one until I was seven and he was twelve before he moved away to the other side of the country. I was alone for a long time until my Father remarried a woman from the other side of the country who brought her son to live with us. He was my age. We graduated together. Our friends thought that I was just so close to his family that they let me have a room in their house.

After I graduated High School I was homeless for a while, living in my car. The hardest part of my life at this juncture was keeping my cell phone charged. I used to crawl underneath the shelves in Wal Mart looking for electrical outlets to plug into. Then I'd walk around Wal Mart for hours waiting. I don't like to talk about those times.