Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.

You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.

That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.